‘Tears and pain’ after deadly Sudan landslide

In the remote mountain village of Tarasin in Sudan’s western Darfur, three successive landslides struck without warning last week.

“The people lost everything,” Francesco Lanino, operations director at Save the Children, told AFP via Zoom from Port Sudan after a team from the charity arrived in the devastated village in Sudan’s Jebel Marra region.

Torrential rains had saturated the mountains above and when the hillside finally gave way, it collapsed in seconds — burying homes, livestock and…

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News Source: www.al-monitor.com

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