{"id":512855,"date":"2026-07-01T14:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/at-least-59-people-died-due-to-flooding-in-ivory-coast\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T14:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:03:22","slug":"at-least-59-people-died-due-to-flooding-in-ivory-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/at-least-59-people-died-due-to-flooding-in-ivory-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;At least 59 people died due to flooding in Ivory Coast&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Nairobi.<\/strong>&#8211; The<strong> Government of Ivory Coast<\/strong> reported this Wednesday that 59 people have died this year due to the rains lashing the West African region, which have caused flooding.<\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cThe Council regrets the exceptionally high figure of 59 deaths this year; and we are barely at the beginning of the rainy season,\u201d<\/strong> said the Ivorian Executive spokesperson, Amadou Coulibaly, after the end of the Council of Ministers meeting.<\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;nnn<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The highest number of fatalities was recorded in the commune of Att\u00e9coub\u00e9, within the economic capital of Abidjan, where about 20 people died.<\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cUnfortunately, residents have returned to the areas from which they had been displaced. The government deeply regrets the loss of life and offers its condolences to the families of the deceased, wishing a speedy recovery to the injured,\u201d added the spokesperson.<\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Government urged the population to respect the implemented security measures, especially regarding leaving the areas identified as at-risk.<\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neighboring Ghana has also been affected by the storms that caused flooding in the capital of Accra, and so far authorities have indicated that twelve people have died and emergency services have had to rescue about 479 people.<\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2015, Accra suffered similar floods that caused a gas station explosion and left a death toll of 150 people.<\/p>n&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;n Nairobi.&#8211; The Government of Ivory Coast reported this Wednesday that 59 people have died this year due to the rains lashing the West African region, which have caused flooding. n&#8221; &#8220;n \u201cThe Council regrets the exceptionally high figure of 59 deaths this year; and we are barely at the beginning of the rainy season,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":512856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[41575],"class_list":["post-512855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-floods"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-29pR","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/HMKMplFWYAA8WtV.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/HMKMplFWYAA8WtV.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}