Inondations en Côte d'Ivoire: 59 morts depuis le début de la saison des pluies en mai
Torrential rains followed by devastating floods are recurrent in Ivory Coast's economic capital, Abidjan, where more than six of the country's thirty million inhabitants live.
Precarious constructions in poor and flood-prone areas are rampant in this continuously growing metropolis.
During the press briefing following the Council of Ministers meeting, Amadou Coulibaly lamented a "particularly high death toll of 59 people this year, while we are only at the beginning of the rainy season".
Monday was a particularly rainy day, especially in the economic capital Abidjan.
For several years the government has been carrying out sometimes brutal eviction and demolition operations, called "evictions", claiming to target precarious neighborhoods in flood zones and restore "urban order".
"It should be noted that we have not had any victims in the areas identified as being at risk, and whose populations respected the government's safety instructions and agreed to move," said Mr. Coulibaly.
According to him, the Attécoubé district, a municipality located in the west of Abidjan which had already experienced demolition operations in the past, was the most affected, with "about twenty deaths", including people who had resettled in sites previously destroyed.
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