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25 Jul 2022
‘We’ve forgotten about the rain.’ Water management project brings relief from flooding in Yaounde, Cameroon’s capital
Florence Latila remembers the destruction that flooding caused in Yaounde, the Cameroonian capital for over three decades from 1980.
“When it rained, the water could reach my waistline. It was not possible to access the area to work on many days,” Latila said.
About 2.8 million of the country’s 26 million inhabitants reside in Yaoundé. Over 130 floods struck the capital between 1980 and 2014, resulting in deaths and economic damage.,
Part of 17 km of canals built during the first and second phase of an African Development Bank’s project on the watercourses that drain Yaoundé City.
