Goz Beida, Chad (AlertNet) - Over 80 families forced out of their homes by floods in Goz Beida say they want authorities and aid groups to improve their temporary displacement sites with better water supply, health facilities and semi-permanent shelters.
Heavy rains across Chad, the worst in 40 years, caused floods that uprooted about 150,000 people and destroyed property in a country which was barely coming out of a drought that had caused food shortages for nearly 2 million people, the United Nations said.
Most of the inhabitants of the site, located next to the Djabal refugee camp for refugees from western Sudan, sat out of their tents provided by U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to escape the heat from the sun that shone brightly as the dry season set in.
Experts have warned that such extreme weather conditions will become regular as the effects of climate change are felt around the world.
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