SUDANESE IRRIGATION MINSTER DISCLOSES CAUSES BEHIND OF FLOODING

The Sudanese Irrigation and Water Resources Minister on Tuesday said the reasons behind the floodings of the year 2020 is heavy rainfalls in Ethiopia highland as well as people building their houses near the course of the river Nile . The Nile water level will gradually decrease starting Tuesday the Nile levels registered 17,65 centimetres compared to 17,67 (Monday),” Yasir Abbas, Sudan’s irrigation and water resources minister, said at a press conference in Khartoum.
Meanwhile, the Sudanese minister denied that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) was the reason behind the unprecedented floods in Sudan and the floods will not occur in Sudan after the completion of the construction of the GERD which will regulate the flow of the river.