{"id":67514,"date":"2024-04-23T18:51:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T23:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67514"},"modified":"2024-04-23T18:51:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T23:51:40","slug":"hundreds-of-thousands-displaced-by-flooding-in-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67514","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of thousands displaced by flooding in Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hundreds of thousands displaced by flooding in Burundi<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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People in Burundi are struggling to cope with flooding after months of heavy rains, with hundreds of thousands being displaced and many homes and schools damaged.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The relentless rain has resulted in the level of water in Lake Tanganyika rising considerably, causing chaos for communities living along its shores.<\/p>\n

Lake Tanganyika\u2019s rising waters have invaded the port of Bujumbura, Burundi\u2019s economic capital, disrupting business there and elsewhere in the country<\/p>\n

\u201cThe economic impacts are starting to weigh heavily. But why these floods? It must be said that they are associated with the climate changes that are affecting Burundi, like other countries in the region,\u201d says Jean-Marie Sabushimike, a disaster management expert and professor of geography at Burundi University.<\/p>\n

While climate change is the trigger, the impact of the flooding is exacerbated by poor land-use planning \u201cthat does not take into account areas at very high risk of flooding,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The United Nations estimates that, since September, over 200,000 people have been displaced by flooding as a consequence of the El Nino weather phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Many people are living in difficult situations as the water has destroyed infrastructure, flooded fields, and impacted livelihoods.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince last year, the rain and the water levels have been rising here. Little by little, the land is getting waterlogged. Now, it has reached this level and we have never seen it this bad. It’s terrible,\u201d says flood victim, Joachim Ntirampeba.<\/p>\n

With forecasts predicting above normal rainfall until May, the government has appealed to the international community for financial assistance to deal with the impact of flooding.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are asking our development partners to combine efforts with the state of Burundi to help all people affected by these disasters,\u201d said Interior Minister Martin Niteretse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of thousands displaced by flooding in Burundi People in Burundi are struggling to cope with flooding after months of heavy rains, with hundreds of thousands being displaced and many homes and schools damaged. The relentless rain has resulted in the level of water in Lake Tanganyika rising considerably, causing chaos for communities living along […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34327,34328,1001,34326],"class_list":["post-67514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-african-news","tag-burundi","tag-flooding","tag-redaction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67515,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67514\/revisions\/67515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}