{"id":178649,"date":"2024-08-16T10:11:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T08:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/chad-seeks-assistance-to-deal-with-floods-as-neighboring-cameroon-pleads-for-help-with-drought\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T10:11:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T08:11:40","slug":"chad-seeks-assistance-to-deal-with-floods-as-neighboring-cameroon-pleads-for-help-with-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/chad-seeks-assistance-to-deal-with-floods-as-neighboring-cameroon-pleads-for-help-with-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Seeks Assistance to Deal With Floods As Neighboring Cameroon Pleads for Help With Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Yaounde, Cameroon \u2014 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 &#8211; severe drought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Forty-two-year-old farmer Regine Bumbai said her house was swept&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408160035.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaounde, Cameroon \u2014 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 &#8211; severe drought. Officials say floods for the past three days have forced about 53,000 people to flee several towns and villages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00620541:9f357726bb3843dc351c175c2766c791:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,9651,4698,377,4699,7012,4787,6878,8864,257,10427,8111,254],"class_list":["post-178649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assistance","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-chad","tag-deal","tag-drought","tag-floods","tag-neighboring","tag-news","tag-pleads","tag-seeks","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00620541:9f357726bb3843dc351c175c2766c791:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}