Sudan opposition criticises Khartoum’s ‘inability’ to deal with rain

The spokesman of the National Consensus Forces (NCF) said that recent rain and flood in Sudan “revealed the inability of the President to deal with the humanitarian disaster” caused as a result thereof.Kamal Omar Abdel Salam, spokesman of the NCF, the coalition of mainstream opposition parties in Sudan, said the government of President Omar Al Bashir “is not concerned about the lives and properties of the citizens.”Speaking during a press conference in Khartoum, Salam said that what is happening now in Sudan is a result of the “failure of the government.”He called upon the government to immediately declare Sudan a “disaster zone” to enable the international community and voluntary organisations to help the people “who are sleeping on the ground under the sky.”According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), about 150,000 people have been affected by flooding in Sudan this year so far.File photo: NCF spokesman Kamal Omar Abdel SalamRelated: Rains destroy 2,455 houses in across Darfur (13 August 2013)