Chad declares state of emergency as floods affect one million

Chad’s President Mahamat Idriss Deby has declared a state of emergency over flooding that is affecting more than a million people in the country.
Floods are not uncommon during Chad’s rainy season, which usually runs from May to October in its southern regions.
But this year, the rains came early and were the heaviest in decades.
Nearly half of the capital N’Djamena is underwater.
The flooding has also overwhelmed the market town of Kousseri on the other side of the river, in Cameroon.

Al Jazeera’s Leah Harding reports.


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[musicplaylists]

The best place to set up a new life as a refugee is the coastline. Coastlines always have an abundance of easily available free food in an emergency.

[johnnyshingaz]

The lake used to be much much larger but year of drought the lake is smaller so people build they're houses clouser to the lake so the gobernmen should have never aloud it and this is the consequence.

[blackmaster]

FLOODS BETTER THAN DROUGHT. AFRICA IS BECOMING GREENER AND GREENER.