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Sudanese cross a flooded road in the town of Iboud, in al-Gezira state south of the capital Khartoum, Sudan, on August 22, 2022.[AFP]
Heavy rains have triggered building collapses that have killed 17 people in northern Sudan, as the country reels from almost 16 months of fighting between rival security forces, a medic told AFP on Tuesday.
"The number of victims has risen to 17," said an employee at a hospital in Abu Hamad, a small town in Sudan's River Nile state, some 400 kilometers north of Khartoum.
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