日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
China
Home / China / World

African cities face threat of landslides like Sierra Leone

China Daily | Updated: 2017-08-19 08:44

FREETOWN - Natural and human factors made Sierra Leone's capital vulnerable to a landslide that killed more than 400 people this week: Heavy rain, deforested land and communities forced by overcrowding to live on steep hillsides.

Those vulnerabilities are mirrored in villages and cities across West and Central Africa that face a worsening threat from landslides, researchers say.

Hundreds are also missing after the side of Mount Sugar Loaf collapsed near Freetown on Monday in one of the worst flooding-related disasters in Africa in years. On Thursday, another landslide in a fishing village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least 40.

 African cities face threat of landslides like Sierra Leone

A worker is digging graves at a cemetery in Waterloo, Sierra Leone, on Thursday. Afolabi Sotunde / Reuters

More than 4,000 people have died in similar incidents over the past 10 years and millions of dollars of resources are lost because of them each year in Africa, according to Ogbonnaya Igwe, a senior lecturer at the University of Nigeria, who studies landslides.

"Triggered by intense rainfall, changes in water level and anthropogenic activities, it is very difficult ... to overestimate their threat to public safety and the environment," Igwe said.

Landslides generally happen after periods of heavy rain, saturating or liquefying soil and causing slippage. They are more likely to occur if soil is laid bare by deforestation or urban planning.

In Sierra Leone, large-scale burials have begun as an estimated 600 people remain missing. People continue to search through tons of mud and debris amid the remains of mangled buildings.

Further threat

The government has warned residents to evacuate a mountainside where a large crack has opened. Rainfall remains in the forecast for the coming days, slowing recovery efforts and bringing the threat of further mudslides.

Thousands of people have lost their homes. Some critics accuse the government of not learning from past disasters in a city where many poor areas are near sea level and lack good drainage. The capital is also plagued by unregulated construction on its hillsides.

The government has hired 600 gravediggers for burials in a cemetery that holds victims of the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak that killed thousands in the country.

President Ernest Bai Koroma joined mourners for burials on Thursday. Many people have been unable to find their loved ones as many victims were too mangled and decomposed to be identified, but the government has vowed to hold respectful burials for all.

"The water took away my mother and sister and they have buried them today. That's why we are here, to mourn and go back home," said one survivor, Zainab Kargbo.

Reuters - AP

Editor's picks
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 日韩av一二三区 | 国产美女激情视频 | 日韩少妇视频 | 女人日批视频 | 日韩在线精品强乱中文字幕 | 天天操天天草 | 亚洲欧美国产精品专区久久 | 欧美挤奶吃奶水xxxxx | 亚洲欧美另类日韩 | 国产精品第一页在线观看 | 午夜在线观看视频网站 | 秋霞欧美网 | 蜜臀av性久久久久蜜臀aⅴ四虎 | 99re在线精品视频 | 狠狠操网 | 欧美成人精品一区二区三区 | 亚洲国产婷婷 | 青青草在线播放 | 成人免费视频国产免费 | 久久伊人精品 | 国产日韩视频 | 国产精品第 | 日韩欧美国产高清91 | 久久av资源 | 日本午夜在线观看 | 一本黄色片| 黄页网站在线看 | 成人福利网| 日日夜夜狠狠爱 | av资源站| 久久久久久久91 | 国产精品视频播放 | 久久99久久久 | 成人网在线免费观看 | 日韩中文视频 | 国产精品一区二区三区久久久 | 性生活免费观看视频 | 日本中文字幕在线免费观看 | 日本亚洲欧美在线 | 国产视频欧美视频 | 日韩在线视频看看 |