Sisi extends Egypt’s condolences to Burhan over Sudan’s flood victims

CAIRO – 27 August 2021: Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi extended the country’s condolences to head of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan over the victims of floods in Sudan.

In a phone call on Thursday evening, Sisi extended the Egyptian government and people’s condolences to Sudan and the families of the victims of the floods that swept a number of Sudanese states, the Egyptian Presidential spokesman Bassam Radi said.

The Egyptian President has prayed that God Almighty bless the victims with his vast mercy and place them in his vast gardens (heaven), the spokesman said.

Sisi affirmed Egypt’s full solidarity with sisterly Sudan during these circumstances within the framework of the firm brotherly and historic bonds between the two peoples of the Nile Valley.

Burhan, for his part, expressed appreciation to Sisi for his sincere feelings and condolences, highlighting the special and strong Egyptian-Sudanese relations on the official and popular levels.

As total of 52 people, including a woman and her child, have died from the floods, spokesman of the National Council for Civil Defense Abdel Galil Abdel Rahim told Sky News.

According to the spokesman, 26 of the deaths are in the River Nile state only.

The spokesman said 3,890 homes completely collapsed and more than 12,500 homes partially collapsed.