Since the end of June, floods have affected more than 340,000 people in Chad, according to a preliminary UN study that AFP read on Wednesday.
According to a statement from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), “the provisional toll from the floods is 341,056 individuals impacted (55,123 families) in 11 of the 23 provinces,” including the nation’s capital N’Djamena.
This landlocked nation in central Africa has been experiencing heavy rainfall for several weeks.
According to the Ocha office in Chad, those who had to “abandon their houses” and who “lost property” are the “affected” people.
As a reminder, Ocha stated, “the floods affected 256,000 people in 2021 and 388,000 in 2020.
The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on August 19 that since June, the torrential rains in Chad have claimed the lives of 22 people.
In an interview with AFP, the Ocha office in Chad said, “We cannot handle this scenario; we need additional aid; that is why we are asking to donors.” According to Ocha, the government only has 1.1 million dollars in aid, far short of the 6.3 million needed.
More than 5.5 million people, or more than a third of this landlocked nation in Central Africa, will require “emergency humanitarian assistance” by 2021, according to the UN.
The conflict in Ukraine, where Russia has enforced a blockade on Ukrainian food, has made the situation worse.
