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Torrential flooding battered Sudan’s southeast Tuesday, bringing entire villages underwater and causing homes to collapse, witnesses told AFP, in the first devastating weather event of Sudan’s rainy season. In Aroma, a town some 60 kilometres (37 miles) north of the major Sudanese city of Kassala, residents were “shocked this morning by the sudden water” after the collapse of a dirt barrier that functioned as a makeshift dam, local resident Ibrahim Issa told AFP over the phone. The flooding, which usually occurs in the area later in the summer, follows increased rainfall in neighbouring Eritre…