The Blue Nile river flows near the site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam near Assosa, Ethopia, on June 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Elias Asmare, File)KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) — On Sudan’s Tuti Island, where the Blue and White Nile meet, the highest river waters since records began have left people struggling to hold back the rising floods. My husband and I, with our five children, fled… carrying a few things in our hands.”Every year during the rainy season the river floods, and the people of the island expect the waters to rise. The level of the Blue Nile has risen to 57 feet, the ministry of water and irrigation said this week, breaking all records since measurements began more than a century ago. Heavy rains are forecast to continue through September, both in Sudan and upstream in neighboring Ethiopia, the source of the Blue Nile.

Source: Ethiopian News September 04, 2020 09:33 UTC