Onsdag lancerede FN sammen med sine humanitære partnere og Benins regering en 47 millioner US dollars nødhjælpspakke for at hjælpe næsten 800.000 nødstedte mennesker i Benin, som oplever de værste oversvømmelser i et århundrede.
More than 680,000 people in 55 of the country’s 77 municipalities have been affected by the flooding, with more than 105,000 people having lost their homes.
These numbers are expected to rise as the rains, which began in mid-September, are forecast to continue through this month in Benin, already in the midst of a nutrition and food security crisis before the flooding began.
The waters have severely damaged schools, hospitals and infrastructure, with 128,000 hectares of farmland having been ruined and 12,000 metric tons of food stocks having been lost, reported the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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