AA / Yaoundé / Peter Kum
In Chad, more than 340,000 people have been affected by floods since the end of June, according to a provisional report released on Wednesday August 24 by the United Nations.
“The provisional assessment of the floods is 341,056 people affected (i.e. 55,123 households) in 11 of the 23 provinces”, including the capital Ndjamena, said in a press release the office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs of the United Nations (Ocha). .
According to the UN, the province of Logone Occidental has the highest number of victims with 147,129 (21,627 households), followed by Sila with 77,357 (13,703 households) and the capital Ndjamena with 41,262 (6,548 households).
A torrential rain fell on the province of Guéra causing a death and enormous material damage according to the governor of the region
Reached on Thursday by Anadolu, the governor of Guéra province, Sougour Mahamat Galma reported “houses collapsed, livestock carried away”, specifying that a woman was killed and around forty households were left homeless.
The Minister of Communication, government spokesman, Abderaman Koulamallah, told the agency that “climate change is certainly one of the main causes of this recurring phenomenon”.
To help these disaster victims, “there is an ongoing response from the Chadian government and partners, in food and non-food items in Ndjamena, particularly in the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th arrondissements”. , underlined the UN.
Ocha has estimated that the overall cost needed for an appropriate humanitarian response for the affected people amounts to more than 4 billion CFA Francs (approximately 6,374,327 USD) and the government has only 770 million CFA Francs (approximately 1,183,248 USD). USD).
As a reminder, 256,000 people were affected by the floods in 2021 and 388,000 in 2020.
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