AFRIC: Over 800k Victims of South Sudan, Sudan Flood to Get $440k AFDB Intervention
Daily Rendezvous African Development Bank Group approves $440,000 emergency relief assistance for flood victims in South Sudan and Sudan . The package, from the Bank’s Special Relief Fund, will be split nearly equally between the two countries and will be used to purchase food items and water has approved an emergency assistance relief package of $440,000 to fund ongoing humanitarian and emergency relief efforts in areas recently hit by floods in South Sudan and Sudan. The package, from the Bank’s Special Relief Fund, will be split nearly equally between the two countries and will be used to purchase food items and water, and to cover the implementation costs to be incurred by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The funding is part of a multinational emergency response to provide relief to flood victims in both countries, where torrential rains have caused rivers to overflow their dykes and banks, disrupting trade routes, damaging crops, killing livestock...