According to a responsible for the Ministry of Local Development, these rainfall, the most important for eleven years, “stem from climate change”.
Le Monde with AFP
Four people died in southern Egypt, held in recent days in unpublished diluvian rains, indicated officials. “It was eleven years since we had not recorded such a lot of rain and it comes from global climate change,” said Khaled Qassem, a leader of the Ministry of Local Development, Tuesday, November 16th.
in “fifty-five minutes”, on the night Friday to Saturday, “8 million cubic meters of water” fell on the province of Aswan, 650 km south of Cairo, detailed the Governor, Ashraf Attiya, on state television. According to the Ministry of Health, four people died when their homes have collapsed in the rain and hailstones. In total, 106 houses were taken away and more than 300 partially damaged, according to the governor.
In addition to cutting water and electricity in some areas, the rains have brought out many scorpions and “more than 500 people were stung,” the governorate announced on his Facebook page. In comments, people claimed themselves “encircled by scorpions and snakes”, saying worry about “children and old men”. There are four or five types of scorpions in the Egyptian desert, whose bites can cause strong fevers, but no deaths due to a scorpion sting has been recorded, said the Ministry of Health.
During the winter 2020 already, rains and floods had made twenty deaths in the country. These bad weather in Egypt – which will host the COP27 on the climate in 2022 – have occurred while the COP26 delivers a text deemed lukewarm because it does not guarantee to contain the warming at 1.5 ° C and not responding to requests from help from poor countries.