“Devastating” floods have claimed 43,000 victims so far in northern Cameroon with no deaths or injuries, the governor of the Far North said on Thursday.
The Mayo Danay region located in this part of the country regularly hit by floods during the rainy season, has been particularly affected due to torrential rains in recent days.
“As if we were refugees”
They are the cause of the rise of the Logone River, which borders the region to the east and forms a natural border with Chad.
“Les inondations ont été particulièrement dévastatrices cette année et nous étions loin d’imaginer l’ampleur des dégâts”, declared Paul Atanga Nji, the minister of the territorial administration for the issue of a visit Mercredi à Yagoua, lieu chef region of.
In 2012, the floods in the North region left 12 dead, one missing and 27,000 displaced according to an official report. If no deaths had been officially declared in the neighboring Far North region, there were more than 30,000 displaced people there.
“After so many years, these floods persist and people move from one place to another as if we were refugees. It’s not good,” said Zaina Haida, a seamstress in Yagoua.
Two accommodation places have been set up in Danayre and at the entrance to Yagoua, where 20 and 40 tents have been set up respectively to house the victims.
Source: BFM TV
