World Health Organisation claims more than 300,000 affected by Sudan floods In addition to damage from the flash floods which struck urban neighbourhoods earlier this month, the Blue Nile river in Khartoum has risen. AFP reporters on Thursday saw the river had washed over about one kilometre (half a mile) of farmland in the east of the city, but a sand berm appeared to have been erected in an effort to block further intrusion. "This is a huge disaster," Mark Cutts, who heads the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Sudan, said last week. He said the UN is ready to support the government to help those affected by the floods, even though UN humanitarian operations in Sudan "have been severely underfunded" in 2013. Aid workers were also assisting hundreds of thousands displaced this year by worsening fighting in the western Darfur region. More than one million more have been uprooted or severely affected by war in South Kordofan and Blue Nile.