Chad Seeks Assistance to Deal With Floods As Neighboring Cameroon Pleads for Help With Drought

Yaounde, Cameroon — Officials in Chad are asking for international assistance to save thousands of people from persistent flooding, while officials in neighboring Cameroon are seeking help to cope with the opposite problem – severe drought.

Officials say floods for the past three days have forced about 53,000 people to flee several towns and villages in Sila, a southeastern province bordering Sudan and the Central African Republic.

Forty-two-year-old farmer Regine Bumbai said her house was swept…