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Date of event
31-07-2023
What happened, where and when?
During the evening of Sunday 30 July 2023 to Monday 31 July 2023, the department of Boghé experienced heavy rainfalls for several hours affecting 26 localities and amounting to 2708mm of water, with some areas experiencing more than 150mm.
This refers to more than 150 mm of rainfall in a single night (July 30 to 31, 2023) in the department of Boghé, not the height of the floodwaters. These intense rains led to flash flooding affecting 26 localities, causing significant damage to infrastructure, homes, and livelihoods.
One death has been registered in the village of Hamdallah. Several items and infrastructures have been damaged in affected areas, including food stocks, roads, seawalls, latrines and electricity infrastructures and services. The collapse of several houses has caused the displacement of several families.
Families that have lost their houses have taken shelter in schools or in relatives or neighbors houses that were not affected by the heavy rain falls. The flood has been caused by the outpouring rain that came from village of Aari Hara situated in the mountains next to the department of Boghé.
The number of people affected in three most affected communes (Boghé, Ould Birom, Dar El Avia) are provided in the table below (see attached image) by the General population and housing census (RSPH 2013).
Boghé was mostly affected, with more than 8,000 affected people out of 42,546, mostly around the water banks of the Senegal river.
Other communes like Ould Birom and Dar El Avia have experienced a lower amount of affected people.