Mauritania: Flood Damage Intensifies With More Rains

UN Integrated Regional Information Networks

5 September 2007

As Mauritania tries to recover from floods that totally submerged the southeastern town of Tintane in early August, more recent rains have caused additional damage in other regions of the country.

Heavy rains on 29-31 August have affected hundreds of families in the southern regions of Gorgol and Assaba. Dozens of families have been made homeless, according to preliminary information from the World Food Programme (WFP) and the government's Commissariat Chargé de la Protection Sociale et de la Sécurité Alimentaire (CCPSSA).

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