{"id":208844,"date":"2025-10-03T19:31:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-experts-link-sudans-record-nile-floods-to-climate-change-gerd-water-release-and-weakened-embankments\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T19:31:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:31:57","slug":"sudan-experts-link-sudans-record-nile-floods-to-climate-change-gerd-water-release-and-weakened-embankments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-experts-link-sudans-record-nile-floods-to-climate-change-gerd-water-release-and-weakened-embankments\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Experts Link Sudan&#8217;s Record Nile Floods to Climate Change, GERD Water Release, and Weakened Embankments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Addis Abeba \u2014 Sudan is facing some of the worst Nile flooding in years, with experts warning that a combination of intensified rainfall, weak flood defenses, and the growing impact of climate change has created a dangerous new reality for communities along the river.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Experts told Xinhua that <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20251003\/2a67a63845f54a0883f8bba063b7831f\/c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the flooding cannot be attributed to a single cause.<\/a> Environmental expert Abdul Azim Haraka said Sudan&#8217;s worsening flood patterns were linked to &#8220;intensified rainfall and the growing impact of climate change&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510030250.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Abeba \u2014 Sudan is facing some of the worst Nile flooding in years, with experts warning that a combination of intensified rainfall, weak flood defenses, and the growing impact of climate change has created a dangerous new reality for communities along the river. Experts told Xinhua that the flooding cannot be attributed to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":208845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,7796,6239,52480,5060,6878,2767,7562,257,4162,5267,6011,254,4708,1613,8105,6722,37721],"class_list":["post-208844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-change","tag-climate","tag-embankments","tag-experts","tag-floods","tag-gerd","tag-link","tag-news","tag-nile","tag-record","tag-release","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-water","tag-weakened"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}