Greater than 100,000 individuals have been affected by the flooding, which has hit Tanzania’s coastal areas particularly onerous.
Floods have killed 58 individuals in Tanzania during the last two weeks, spurring the East African nation to hunt a solution in main infrastructure tasks.
The federal government introduced the dying toll late on Sunday as heavy rains continued to lash the nation. April marks the height of Tanzania’s wet season, and it has been exacerbated this 12 months by the El Nino phenomenon, which has induced droughts and floods throughout the globe.
“From April 1 to April 14, 2024, there have been 58 deaths attributable to the heavy rains, which led to flooding,” authorities spokesman Mobhare Matinyi informed a press briefing, stressing that the nation’s coastal area was one of many worst affected.
“Critical flood results are skilled within the coast area the place 11 individuals have thus far died,” he added.
Tanzania has plans to assemble 14 dams to stop flooding in future, the spokesman stated.
Simply 4 months in the past, no less than 63 individuals have been killed throughout floods in northern Tanzania that additionally triggered devastating landslides.
On Friday, eight schoolchildren drowned after their bus plunged right into a flooded gorge within the north of the nation. A volunteer within the rescue operations additionally died.
Total, no less than 126,831 individuals have been affected by the flooding, Matinyi reported.
Greater than 75,000 farms have been broken within the coastal and Morogoro areas – about 200km (124 miles) west of the financial capital, Dar-es-Salaam.
Important provides, together with meals, have been distributed to these affected.
Different components of East Africa have additionally been experiencing heavy rains. Flooding in neighbouring Kenya is reported to have killed no less than 13 individuals.
Infrastructure has additionally been broken and people dwelling in flood-prone areas are being urged to maneuver.
Scientists from the World Climate Attribution group have stated the rainfall in East Africa “was some of the intense ever recorded” within the area between October and December.
“Local weather change additionally contributed to the occasion, making the heavy rainfall as much as two occasions extra intense,” the AFP information company reported, citing the group, including that the precise contribution of world warming was unknown.