Landslide kills up to 1,000

Landslide kills up to 1,000

“Hundreds of Sudanese villagers were killed when a landslide engulfed their village in Darfur, a region already stricken by famine and war, according to officials and a local rebel group that issued an urgent appeal on Tuesday for international help,” reports The New York Times:
The village is in Darfur, where a militia is building a ‘kill box‘ to massacre people in a city of 300,000.
At least 200 people died last year after a dam collapsed in northeastern Sudan, eliminating the main water supply for Sudan’s administrative capital, Port Sudan. (Due to Sudan’s civil war, the country’s military leaders and ranking civil servants moved to Port Sudan from Sudan’s war-wracked official capital, Khartoum, which has been devastated by fighting).
The Arbaat dam collapsed as Sudan, a mostly arid country that is partly desert, was hit by heavy rainfall leading to disastrous floodwaters in four of its states.
The United Nations said at least 50,000 homes and twenty villages in Red Sea State were destroyed after the Arbaat Dam collapsed, suddenly releasing huge amounts of water.
Hans Bader

Hans Bader

Hans Bader practices law in Washington, D.C. After studying economics and history at the University of Virginia and law at Harvard, he practiced civil-rights, international-trade, and constitutional law. He also once worked in the Education Department. Hans writes for CNSNews.com and has appeared on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal.” Contact him at hfb138@yahoo.com

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