Widespread floods in the Republic of Congo have pushed hundreds of thousands of people to be in urgent need of assistance, said the United Nations Friday. Unusually heavy rainfall has caused nine of the countries 12 departments to be affected with floods damaging health facilities and schools and submerging farmland, said the World Health Organization
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“People are living in the water; the water is still rising, every day it’s rising, rising… We don’t really know how it’s going to end,” said Father Louis Iyeli, who heads the Catholic charity Caritas in the most affected region.
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, January 12, 2024 (ENS) - After two months of heavy rain, the waters of the Congo River have risen higher than anyone has seen them in more than 60 years. The flooding rains have claimed more than 300 lives and disrupted 300,000+ households in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and 17 lives in the Republic of the Congo, authorities on both sides of the river said. %environment news service% news environment latest on forests, oceans, climate, wildlife, fisheries, transportation, business