According to the international organization, 212,111 houses and 3,578,320 hectares of crops were destroyed, while 69,659 livestock were also lost.
The rains since July “caused extreme flooding, which affected all the provinces”, as a result of which “human lives” were lost and “extensive material damage” was recorded, said Marcellin Canabé Pasallet, Minister of Water Resources and Energy, during press conference yesterday Saturday morning, without giving specific numbers.
The minister announced that a flood monitoring committee had been set up, responsible among other things for monitoring the contamination of “drinking water supplies” and “rising water levels” in rivers.
He warned that water levels in the Logon and Sari rivers had risen to the point where there was a risk of further flooding “in the coming days”.
Mr. Pasale also recommended “the use of chlorine” in well water before consumption by households, in order to disinfect it, so as to “avoid contamination.”
In the midst of the rainy season, countries in west and central Africa have been swept by floods in recent weeks.
The region is experiencing an “extremely alarming humanitarian situation right now,” according to the World Food Program (WFP), also part of the UN system, which explained that “catastrophic flooding is currently affecting more than 4 million people in 14 countries.” .
WFP estimates it will need “over $16 million” to continue distributing “vital aid”, food to families in the 14 affected countries, and to help governments cope and strengthen their response capacities of this situation.
Already at the beginning of September, the UN had warned against the “consequences” of “extreme floods” in the region, especially in Chad, calling for “immediate action and adequate funding” to deal with the “climate crisis”.
In northern Cameroon, a region bordering Chad and Nigeria, rainfall has been well above average — estimated to have exceeded 125% of what is considered normal during the months of August, September and October, according to a report by OCHA in mid-September.
The government warned last week against the health risks associated with the floods, particularly the possibility of a resurgence of cholera, malaria and other infectious diseases that are favored by the floods.
In this area, the UN counts at least 20 dead and more than 236,000 flood victims since the end of August.
In Nigeria, massive flooding hit the northern city of Maiduguri at the start of the week, leaving at least 30 dead and more than 400,000 displaced, according to the first preliminary count.
Since the start of the rainy season in Africa’s most populous country, floods have killed 229 people and forced another 380,000 to flee their homes. At least 1,076,000 hectares of crops were damaged, as food insecurity is reported to worsen.
In the summer of 2024, temperature records were broken across the globe — and heat records were broken every month for more than a year, with a litany of heatwaves, droughts and deadly floods fueled by intensifying climate change.
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