FRANCE 24 report: 200,000 people affected by the floods in Cameroon's Far North
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00:00Whole streets submerged underwater. The town of Yagwa has been in water for several weeks.
00:07Torrential rains have washed away everything on their path, including this bridge, which is almost a century old.
00:15More than 200,000 people, mostly women and children, have been forced to leave their homes seeking refuge in
00:23makeshift camps like this one.
00:25Families like Thalita's, a 57-year-old widow who lives in this tent, with 47 other people who have also lost everything.
00:35We lost fields, plates, mattresses, goats, sheep, pigs,
00:40everything, everything. Even our clothes are in there.
00:45While it continues to rain,
00:48volunteers are hard at work.
00:50This group sent by the Red Cross is busy building latrines.
00:55They want to prevent a health crisis from adding to the humanitarian disaster these people are already experiencing.
01:03We are afraid of epidemics. We don't know who will come with an infectious disease.
01:08So we have to be very careful. And we are in the rainy season, and we are in the rainy season,
01:14which is ideal breeding ground for cholera.
01:16More than two weeks after these unusual floods, Cameroonian authorities have come with relief to the victims.
01:24Several tons of bedding and basic necessities came in from the capital, Yaoundé.
01:29This aid, eagerly awaited by the victims, is distributed under the supervision of the Cameroonian Minister of Territorial Administration.
01:40Twelve divisions have been affected by the floods.
01:42In total, we've spent almost 1,900,000,000 in less than a week to help all those affected.
01:54A little consolation for the victims of the devastating floods, which have claimed at least 17 lives and affected more than 200,000 people in the far north region of Cameroon.