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The Congolese government, Brazzaville, has called on international partners to send a relief convoy containing basic subsistence products to more than 180,000 citizens stranded by heavy floods and torrential rains in the north of the country, especially in the hard-to-reach towns of Likouala province.
Antoinette Denga-Dzondo, Minister of Social Affairs and Humanitarian Action, explained that in order to reach the affected areas, “we have to take the river and land routes together, and indeed there are 8 aid convoys that have taken the Congo River route and 5 others have taken the land route.”
The Congolese minister said that due to the lack of access to some of the flooded areas, it will take a few days for humanitarian aid to reach its beneficiaries and meet their needs.
She indicated that the authorities in her country are looking for the necessary funding to develop a sustainable plan to confront such disasters, pointing out that “these sustainable solutions include, in the first place, the provision of decent, sustainable housing for citizens, given that most homes in the affected areas have been found to be generally built from Unstable materials, which exacerbated the crisis. “
It is noteworthy that the capital, Bazravel, and the city of “Pointe-Noire” in the south of the country were not immune from the floods that struck the north of the country due to the deterioration of the water drainage systems.
