N’DJAMENA — Several neighborhoods of N’Djamena have been
flooded out after torrential
rain hammered the Chadian capital for more than a week, an AFP journalist saw.
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“N’Djamena is a
basin, a large part of the north of the city is under water,” Ali Haroun, mayor
of the city, told AFP.
“We have set up
water pumping stations,” he said.
“It is very
possible that houses collapsed because of the weather,” Haroun said, without
giving a toll.
“We put on
motorized pumps to drain the water, without success. The houses continue to
collapse,” said Armand Mbahnoel, a resident of the seventh district whose house
was completely flooded.
“The roads
remained impassable and blocked. Water has poured into all the houses in this
area, but there has been no collapse of the houses today,” said Mustafa
Abagana, who also lives in the area, one of the worst hit by the floods.
The region is
regularly hit by floods.
In August 2020,
more than 11,500 people were displaced by heavy rains in the Chadian capital.
According to the
UN, 5.5 million Chadians, around a third of the landlocked central African
country’s population, needed “urgent humanitarian assistance” in 2021.
The situation has
worsened because of the war in Ukraine, with Ukrainian grain struggling to
leave the country for foreign markets.
Chad, which has
seen numerous armed conflicts since independence from France in 1960, is the
third least developed country in the world according to the UN.
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