River for food for agriculture and for industry of the life blood of many has now pushed boss of the country into crisis thousands have been forced from their homes in the worst floods in a sentry many villages on the niles banks are devastated and have been abandoned across the country at least 100 people have died even in the capital helpful people are trying to continue their lives while waist deep in water and now stagnant water creating a wave in this is stretching medical services by the struggling with a pandemic morgan has more. More than half a 1000000 people have been affected by the heavy floods which sudanese Officials Say is the worst in more than a century now over the past 3 days the waters from the nile river have been receding but its also revealing with many shortcomings and weaknesses in the government and its response the 1st being the drainage system in that country now people in areas affected see they can see waters from the river and from the sewage system mingling together and medics in areas affected see thats resulting in a rise in the number of cases of bilharzia a parasitic disease had a mostly drinking unclean water theyre also saying that they seeing a rise in the number of what terri diarrhea and there are concerns that with more stagnant water and more rains in the coming days there will be a rise in the number of cases of cholera and malaria this is on top of a Health Infrastructure that has already been weak prior to the emergency of the floods now the other weakness the floods have revealed is the economic weakness of the country over the past 10 days the sudanese pounds has lost more than 40 percent of its value which led the Sudanese Government to declare a state of emergency and economic state of emergency on thursday evening they say that anybody caught meddling with the sudanese economy and conflict they will face up to 10 years in prison but people in areas affected say the biggest weakness that this floods have revealed is the weakness in the government response they say many of them are living out in the open more than 100000 alone and theyre saying that theyre in desperate need of shelter investment need also health care and proper medication and sanitation but more than that theyre in desperate need of attention by the government they say that if this is how the government is responding right now how will the government respond in the coming days with forecasting more rains are to come in the future reporting from khartoum people more again for inside story. Here are our guests incredible warm in a city in a simon chair of the u. N. Secretary general xiu with Advisory Group on Climate Change joining us in doha is founder and president of Sudan Policy Forum and from paris is crossword to men is professor of environmental geopolitics and migration dynamics of the Paris Institute of Political Studies thank you to all of you misread sudan is a country that has gone many times through different cycles of floods and drought is a general sentiment among the political establishment and the people of this is something linked to Climate Change and therefore this is the way we should move forward in the near future. Yes it is very but i think its you the Climate Change although it had a big journey and a long wait rast in order to make those decisions and government officials in different districts do understand how Climate Change is acting and directing a different way of life and with their areas so. Yes Climate Change is not only at practice with natural disasters but its also done in other ways that would cause us a lot of conflicts its also affecting the economy that situation of our country was we are 100 percent dependent on our Natural Resources more than 70 percent is our people defending our ports are and would directly on the beach so i think the flux is only making things worse and only showing how much Climate Change can impact the lives and every way and so his people live. What is natural disasters sometimes are beyond the capacity of nations to handle on their own but dont you think that the government or the sudan has failed to put forth a clear plan of action to deal with. Crises like this one. As usual kordic you put it do you snatch one of these us that 6 post political and Administrative Systems but d characteristically dysfunctional as they are that they were functioning. Till the meet atheists and do you want to do the desire to pick a chin and civil war millions of people who migrated to the big cities may need cart or who infrastructure is is very weak and i need to remind the viewers that. For a start of khartoum was provided the but by did a pretty huge in 1954 i needed it was designed only to there was a stand up or a shout of a quote that a 1000000 human beings now occurred to him. Has about 12000000 human beings can ww1x2 millions during the day time and only. And 12. I mean people who come from the but if 80 i wish to look upon this as a governments crisis because if we if we go back to it was hard and then how easy it was hit by an earthquake of 7. 5 quake thats make me do it leaving out the bit wind chill you once was hit in the seamier by. An earthquake of a magnitude of it when it make any protest about it quite good a 1000000 human beings and this distance you all the difference that its a governments crisis in the case of chile you they had. Good Governance Committee that where i think if a geisha in of come and go on its synchronization argonauts is an establishment of common and which we lack these in the case of sudan ok i see your point francois experts have been warning for years. About. The fact that sudan was undergoing environmental changes increases in temperature floods rainfall variability and drought and so on and so on us a 4th it seems that these warnings were somehow overshadowed by sudans own political problems yet yet exactly i mean hes had to say that sudan is one of the most Vulnerable Countries to the impacts of Climate Change big drugs of floods and actually both droughts and floods reinforce each other it is because there have been drugs that we know if large because it is no longer able to absorb the doraine ford and the probably need is that get up dish and get past the peace of sudan is being kind of hinder at bite a pretty good pensions and the conflicts that have been going on in the country for the last few years and it needs to be said that gone 3 that undergo a conflict and violence are also more vulnerable to the impacts of Climate Change because theyre adaptation kept us cities are not what they should be or what they could be so this is indeed a challenge for sudan and we need to understand that the political crisis is the enrolment that prizes and economy are cheap or go hand in hand and we live in the face of a compounded disaster that has already today displaced more than alpha 1000000 people and if theyre Able Solutions it shelters and up front with these people then it is likely that they will impose an additional demographic pressure on their areas which could in turn transform into tensions and economic gap and this when if if. Yourself and all the activists in the country if you are to talk to the government now about the fact that sudan isnt. A nation where many populous cities are on the banks of the river and that therefore there needs to be a new planning strategy of the country to be able to cope with the ramifications of disasters like this particular one do you think that this could easily become a top priority for a government which is dealing with a series of other problems. I think wrecked which you will be does the government how asd will theres such i would have occasion are not so. My early years there we have more than one person living life in iowa does the government have the capacity to will all of us from the barriers up the nile and then relocate them somewhere else this is a huge which youre in this market up economical situation thats that its basically for the last 5 or 6 years at the separation of south sudan its its a matter of does the current government have the capacity not only financially but also in the terms are efficiency are the government institutions. Like indicators though do they have the capacity to actually do such a big project and also how much help or support from the International Community will this government receive in order to. Do such a movement its not just something simple or small its a huge change if you stepped so the government cannot even. Now i think it cannot even try to promise people with such a thing without security enough resources in order are planning for such a process its not an easy easy job its not an easy task to do and its very important to always mention that sudan was locked evil until now it was not and did not its not part of the law but. In meters countries yet it suffers from Climate Change more than any other country ok so how the government might explain this to the well ringback its not about for our supper that wanted so then obviously is facing extraordinary challenges ahead during times of drought many parts of the country become uninhabitable because obviously theres absolutely no water now were seeing the opposite of that. Part of the country and inhabitable because of the flood it gives you the impression that from now on was a Sudanese Government and the people have to think about all the other alternatives in the near future when there is drought and when there is floods. Yes the priority for the Sudanese Government is to design and were kind of implementing a National Development strategy see none of the lots of the last 64 years have. Thought seriously about designing a National Development strategy. But we cant compare the last hippias always with the us before in the last 50 years this redeem that a game that was removed by a great that evolution aims and went totally debilitating the local government system it totally destroyed. Their own currency then used to be something something called was that of. Its equivalent to the corpse or if you need an excuse to cooperate with the local government administrated to at least help people build their residence in an enviroment 30 sustainable area. University of khartoum used to receive funds that would help develop materials that are environmentally friendly and economically feasible for the for for the population down. The governments. The governments issue and do has to i mean being an educated person himself and some but somebody or. Not to face the finance as a government we cant just. We cant just go around this not thinking that learning not not believing in the utility of planning there are going to be some very serious. Problems with. The media and done because d and this is something that will. We talk about that in a little later ill get done yet we need we need to look pretty restrictive as well as prospective ok francois when you look at the images coming from coming out from sudan you see the massive impact of the flood so the point where you were just easily say that this is a country that needs hundreds of millions of dollars in the coming years to be able to. Cope with the impact of the floods how can the country handle the situation when it seems like there is an International Donors apathy when it comes to sudan. Yes indeed i think that many u. S. Events are 1st from a battery be patient due to the fact that it was rude for years by a matter of bashir was in south being sued for a crime against humanity in a war crime and therefore because of the fall of the legal regime in sudan and i think that there is some kind of general apathy ways comes to International Humanitarian assistance and i think that its extremely important that the International Community mobilizes itself and provides not only humanitarian assistance to see done but also through long term funding for the fish and so that sudan can really be 1st its a patient give us cities because these floods will happen again if youre here and future droughts will also happen again and we know that more people will get displaced and sudan is already one of the main countries of of a region of International Migrants including as ireland speak of so that there is a real regional but also International Concern that that we should have and on that line i would also like to commend the d. F. Of the if we made recently by countries of Eastern Africa to give us a protocol for Free Movement in the region of the whole of africa i think that this is an extremely important protocol that should help and facilitate the movement of people when there are affected by such disasters and there is also the Comeback Convention which is a Regional Convention that should be protecting people displaced by disasters so regionally there are instruments that exist no they need to be used in this way in the level of the not river is expected to. Increase in the coming days raising many concerns about a protracted flood in the country to the point where hundreds of thousands of people are moving higher land do you expect to see more by gratian to worse neighboring country of the situation continues as it is. I dont think its be to her count i think it can be interpreted placement because for example. Maybe you are talking about the long run and the long wait maybe 5 or 10 years yes we might see a lot of. Countries but i think currently using is not be used most of the displacement is 2 words drier area within itself. Ive been to many camps small camps for effected areas and they are living in tents and their numbers are very high they dont have access to clean water act this or lacked remain so i think what will happen if you do that as you mention any other environmental and Health Issues i think we have a long run to go and i am fearing that a lot of continents will appear because it is they spent we already have short again a lot of Natural Resources and with the movement of people they might be ending are. Actually owned by others which will not only be a reason or 3 get for another so im not sure if the current next were. Going to stop stop soon and dance not because of our. Ringback government our genes or the politics but because of the Natural Resource will lead you spoke earlier about the. Overvote running songs built in. And saying that this should how it should be solved for all the countries including sudan to have a clear policy about how to move forward but dont you think that this flood could be an opportunity for sudan for egypt for the opium and for all the. No basin countries too. Work out a new platform like the one they had before 2010 which is that which was the early warning. To mitigate the risk of an influence absolutely id think be that the answer in this case is the answer for sudan is not big at the un support so than it is a small dams that the breach back at the days of the. When sudan was called the last day of the iraq at the port as they were leaving and they said that sudan needs to fix it needs a good many its small that we small down so we could have avoided a lot of these us thats but now when as if youll be out building it down that has Storage Capacity over 74000000000 cubic meter thats down disk. Experiencing a flood 120. 00 times what we are seeing now got 4 bids should this be in the in the end that gets this and more of this call out most of the scholars who will interview with scientific papers that i read and others commented about it says that the guy and at most sustained this what that place had for like 53 s. So i think we all ought to take things seriously that if you peons as of yet couldnt find one Single Company that would provide them insurance for the ok they are they still brilliantly liked and and they they thought that if you was to provide their technical the Technical Report or or to cooperate with it in this whole issue 1st well this is a country but i think yeah. But i just wanted to throw one point very briefly if you dont mind what is the issue is not money money. Money is not. It is definitely important but more importantly we need a vision the Prime Minister has should be able to utilize Human Resources sports and the ok and his people are very educated and she should take advantage of that francois this is a country that has its own domestic issues pervasive corruption mismanagement of public funds. Long of attack receive there is this government there needs to and to transition to democracy and pave the way for a vibrant democratic elected government in the country until then the International Community does not seem to be willing to commit more cash to help sudan dontcha think that this could pave the way for the Sudanese Government to turn to regional allies to revive the Basin Initiative to try to come together and see how they can sort out all those problems and particularly on top of the agenda is how to deal with Climate Change. Greed that many of the solutions against Climate Change be theyre related to mediation that is the reaction of Greenhouse Gas emissions are adaptation to the backs of Climate Change are to be found at the regional level of Course International celebrity is important but i feel that were not using enough the regional level and yet there are Many Solutions that can be found on the regional level and as i said this is partly a case in Eastern Africa where countries have also alone history of cooperation if the regional institutions and this is after beat the topic of Climate Change and displacement that is at the very core of the business of regional organizations in Eastern Africa so i very much hope that this prize is going to be in a body and he forced it down to one of more strongly it was its regional partners and that we can see again of reality corp and governance on the regional level for this and its there in less than a minute if you dont mind. Is it the right time for you and for the many activists on Climate Change to raise the Awareness Among the sudanese people about the need to build a climate resilient country instead of being broke down in regional and local conflicts the have depleted the economy of the country and have delayed who the 1st to bring about a strong vibrant democratic sudan yes yes absolutely its very important and its also very important to always knowledge thats ben was not part of that old post Climate Change and its also very important to deliver that there is a concept called Climate Justice and Climate Justice is always about being less in meters and less affected and to always be able always have the cabin religion to get back to do that. And its also very important to raise the issue of loss and damage because its very important within the negotiations and the Climate Change talks and on behavior and its a issue that was not stalled until now but its going to keep more awesome a lot of people of the countries to talk about loss and damage this in a psion will lead Modibo Francois g. Man we have to leave a very unfortunately but i really appreciate your insight and looking forward to talking to you in the near future about sudan Climate Change and flaws and how to move forward thank you. Thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website dot com for further discussion go to our Facebook Page thats facebook dot com forward slash a. J. Inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter and that is at a. J. Inside story. 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