Benin Floods Kill 46, Leave 150,000 Homeless and Destroy Harvest Crops
A month of heavy rains in Benin has killed 46 people, left 150,000 without homes and affected key harvests of rice, sorghum and corn, the country’s Interior Minister said.
The West African nation appealed for $46.9 million in aid from international donors, Martial Sounton told reporters in the commercial capital, Cotonou, today.
Almost 400 people have been killed and 1.8 million affected by floods in Central and West Africa this year, the United Nations said Oct. 26.
Thousands in Togo, which neighbors Benin, were displaced last month after the Mono River overflowed its banks. At least 17 people were killed in northern Ghana in September after Burkina Faso released water from dams into tributaries of the Volta River, which runs through both nations.
To contact the reporter on this story: Serge-David Zoueme in Cotonou via Accra at ebowers1@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin at asguazzin@bloomberg.net.
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