[Dabanga] Delft, the Netherlands -- When the Arbaat Dam, 38 kilometres northwest of Port Sudan, collapsed catastrophically in August, following the unusually heavy rains that have hit Sudan this year, it left a swath of death and destruction in its wake, with more than 100 dead and entire villages washed away, affecting more than 50,000 people. The collapse of the Arbaat Dam has been cited in a new report published by the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education* this week, which cautions that with the frequency and severity of extreme
