Amazon Quiz: Amid extensive floods, President Mahamat Idriss Deby declared a state of emergency in which country?
Ivory Coast
Ethiopia
Nigeria
Chad
Answer: Chad
Chad’s President Mahamat Idriss Deby declared a state of emergency last week as the country struggled with floods.
Deby said that the floods are affecting 636 localities in 18 of its 23 regions. He added that tens of thousands fled their homes.
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Above-average rainfall and devastating flooding have affected 5 million people this year in 19 countries across West and Central Africa, according to a new U.N. World Food Program situation report.
“This catastrophe resulting from climate change is one of the most severe the region has known for years, acting as a multiplier of misery for communities already struggling to keep their heads above water,” said Chad’s interim leader Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno.
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Nigeria has recorded at least 600 deaths while authorities in neighboring Niger authorities say at least 192 people have died there as the result of storms, either from homes collapsing or from drowning in flood waters.
According to the UN’s Human Development Index, Chad is the third poorest country on the planet. The global body addedtha t around 5.5 million people in the country need emergency humanitarian aid.
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