DAKAR, Senegal (AP) \u2014 Recent floods in Ivory Coast have killed at least 59 people, a government spokesperson said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Speaking after a Cabinet meeting, Amadou Coulibaly told reporters that \u201cthe council deplores the particularly high death toll of 59 this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Monday, floods and landslides<\/a> triggered by days of torrential rain in the capital cities of Ghana<\/a> and Ivory Coast<\/a> left at least 24 people dead and more missing.<\/p>\n Coulibaly did not specify how many people had died as a result of the most recent flooding in Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n Entire buildings and roads were submerged in Accra, Ghana on Monday, cutting off access to several areas of the Ghanian capital and in the neighboring city of Tema.<\/p>\n In Ivory Coast, several days of rain brought flooding that left more than a dozen people dead, most of them in municipalities of Att\u00e9coub\u00e9 and Yopougon in the capital, Abidjan, according to the Minister of National Cohesion Myss Belmonde Dogo.<\/p>\n Coulibaly urged residents to follow safety guidelines and leave areas designated as high risk by the government. <\/p>\n Deadly floods<\/a> are common in parts of Africa<\/a>, which is among the regions of the world most vulnerable to extreme weather events<\/a> despite being responsible for a small fraction of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the World Meteorological Organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAKAR, Senegal (AP) \u2014 Recent floods in Ivory Coast have killed at least 59 people, a government spokesperson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[316763,1926,192,1679,793,24808,26792,60188,1682,79,965],"class_list":["post-738707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-abidjan","tag-africa","tag-environment","tag-floods","tag-general-news","tag-ghana","tag-ivory-coast","tag-landslides-and-mudslides","tag-natural-disasters","tag-science","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}