The provisional assessment of the United Nations Humanitarian Affairs Coordination Office reports 22 people killed by torrential rains.
Le Monde with AFP
More than 340,000 people have been affected since the end of June by floods in Chad, the less developed countries on the planet, according to a provisional UN assessment consulted on Wednesday by AFP. “The provisional assessment of the floods is 341,056 affected people, or 55,123 households, in 11 of the 23 provinces”, including the capital N’Djamena, said in a statement the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the UN ( Ochha).
Diluvian rains have affected this landlocked country in Central Africa for several weeks. The “affected” people are those having “abandoned their accommodation” and who “lost goods,” the OCHA services in Chad told AFP, adding that “as a reminder, 256,000 people were disaster by floods in 2021 and 388,000 in 2020 “.
On August 19, the UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordination Office announced that 22 people had been killed since June in Chad by exceptional precipitation.
“Emergency humanitarian aid”
“We cannot face this situation, we need more substantial help, which is why we are launching a call for donors,” said the OCHA, interviewed by AFP. The aid required amounts to $ 6.3 million (6.3 million euros) while the government has only 1.1 million, according to Ocha.
According to the United Nations, in 2021, 5.5 million Chadians, more than a third of the population of this landlocked country in Central Africa, needed “emergency humanitarian aid”. A situation that has worsened due to the war in Ukraine where Russia imposed a blockade on Ukrainian cereals.
Chad, which has experienced many armed conflicts on its territory since its independence from France in 1960, is the third least developed country in the world according to the UN. In early June, the Chadian authorities decreed “food emergency” due to the “constant deterioration of the food and nutritional situation”.