Play all audios:
Loading...
Sewage networks have burst and contaminated water supplies in Khartoum, capital of Sudan, and up to a million people are threatened with deadly disease in the aftermath of devastating
floods, Egyptian news media reported. Government authorities and international relief agencies in Sudan were reported to have stepped up efforts to fight more than 5,000 cases of disease
caused by drinking contaminated water. Egyptian television said that Sudanese health authorities and international agencies identified the cases as typhoid, malaria and cholera. The price of
drinking water has soared 10 times its level before the floods, health officials said. MORE TO READ