Afrigather Impassible roads, flooded homes and faculties and fields submerged following heavy rains, the surroundings in Cameroon’s northern city of Yagoua is one in every of devastation.
Since August, the Far North area has been experiencing floodings attributable to heavy rainfalls, the overflowing of rivers and the breaching of dikes.
The minister of Territorial Administration visited the disaster-stricken area Wednesday.
“This yr’s floods have been notably devastating. The world’s climate forecasters had already predicted that there can be plenty of flooding”, Paul Atanga Nji mentioned.
“However we had no thought how dangerous it will get. The waters have risen to a couple of and a half metres, which is kind of irregular, and it’s mentioned that the final time this division skilled such a tragedy was in 2012.”
Ten years in the past round 20.000 folks have been affected by the floods and 12 died.
If the floods have pressured many to go away their properties to search for shelter, some stay within the flooded cities. Cameroon’s nationwide broadcaster reported that round 43,000 folks had been affected by the flooding.
“Many didn’t need to depart their properties, piroguier expalins.
“That is why we transport folks from home to deal with by pirogue and since our pirogue has no engine we solely cost 50 CFA franc per individual.”
Troopers have been summoned to supplied help. Suvivors of the floods obtained support together with meals and sleeping kits through the ministerial go to. Nonetheless, life stays extraordinarily troublesome even for these evacuated and housed in momentary accomations.
“It is not straightforward for us mums”, Aisatou Toukdata laments.
“There are usually extra of us. We now have to strengthen the dam to keep away from this type of downside. For the time being we’re actually left to our personal units”, the flood victims says.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the humanitarian response within the Cameroonian far north REGION takes place in a posh emergency context combining inhabitants displacements as a result of insecurity, the presence refugees from neighboring international locations in addition to vulnerabilities linked to meals insecurity.
