{"id":238041,"date":"2026-07-03T06:01:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-nearly-60-people-killed-in-flooding-since-may\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T06:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:01:28","slug":"cote-divoire-nearly-60-people-killed-in-flooding-since-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-nearly-60-people-killed-in-flooding-since-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Nearly 60 People Killed in Flooding Since May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>Although the rainy season has only just begun, flooding has already killed dozens in the Ivory Coast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">A &#8220;particularly heavy&#8221; rainy season that started in mid-May has led to deadly flooding, <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/cote-divoire\/t-68154676\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ivory Coast<\/a> government spokesperson Amadou Coulibaly told a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Coulibaly added that a &#8220;particularly high toll of 59 people who have died this year, even though we are only at the beginning of the rainy season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Searches of flood-affected areas are ongoing, and authorities fear the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607020103.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the rainy season has only just begun, flooding has already killed dozens in the Ivory Coast. A &#8220;particularly heavy&#8221; rainy season that started in mid-May has led to deadly flooding, Ivory Coast government spokesperson Amadou Coulibaly told a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Coulibaly added that a &#8220;particularly high toll of 59 people who have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,3910,1218,4327,257,6321,254],"class_list":["post-238041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-flooding","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-killed","tag-news","tag-people","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238041","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=238041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}