There are many places in Gambia now where the seasonal rains have been very heavy,one place to suffer was Tallinding I have visited this area many times and even in the dry season some compounds have several small streams running through them,this particular area being reclaimed marshland,with the constant water mosquitoes breed in great numbers and malaria is rife amongst those in these compounds,a health hazard, but a fact of life,with heavy rains these small streams cannot cope with the water and consequently the whole compound floods,here Foroyaa has published one persons experience of this problem:
There are many mud houses collapsing in rural Gambia because of the rains. I have been informed that many families are without any house left standing in many villages.
It has been announced in the news over GRTS that two children lost their lives this morning in Jarra Soma when a house collapsed on them. Rice fields are being flooded and people will lose all their seedlings.
Very catastrophic!
A clear conscience fears no accusation - proverb from Sierra Leone
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Posted - 07 Sep 2012 : 19:32:12
