{"id":26642,"date":"2022-10-20T05:27:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T05:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=26642"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:17:30","slug":"chad-declares-emergency-amid-exceptional-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/10\/20\/chad-declares-emergency-amid-exceptional-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad declares emergency amid exceptional flooding\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chad&#8217;s military ruler, Mahamat Idriss D\u00e9by, has declared a state of emergency due to exceptional flooding affecting more than a million people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a televised speech, the general said heavy rains have hit three-quarters of the country, submerged nearly 5,000 sq km (1,930 sq miles) of fields and killed thousands of cattle.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Floods are not uncommon during Chad&#8217;s rainy season but this year they came early and were the heaviest in decades.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chad is the world&#8217;s third poorest country according to the United Nations&#8217; Human Development Index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chad&#8217;s military ruler, Mahamat Idriss D\u00e9by, has declared a state of emergency due to exceptional flooding affecting more than a million people. In a televised speech, the general said heavy rains have hit three-quarters of the country, submerged nearly 5,000 sq km (1,930 sq miles) of fields and killed thousands of cattle.&nbsp; Floods are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[8289,5787,8004,9515,5572,12085,7398,1332,10041,11533,11906,7999,36],"class_list":["post-26642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-chad","tag-flood","tag-heavy-rains","tag-killed","tag-military","tag-nations","tag-rains","tag-rainy-season","tag-speech","tag-state-of-emergency","tag-the-general","tag-united-nations","tag-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50813,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26642\/revisions\/50813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}