
Hundreds killed in Sudan landslide, UN says
BBC News
Sunday's landslide followed heavy rain and "levelled" a remote village, a local armed group says.
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the southeast, and South Sudan to the south. Sudan has a population of 50 million people as of 2024 and occupies 1,886,068 square kilometres, making it Africa's third-largest country by area. Sudan's capital and most populous city is Khartoum.
Sunday's landslide followed heavy rain and "levelled" a remote village, a local armed group says.
Mohamed, who fled civil war in Sudan, says the recent immigration unrest has unsettled him.