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DOSSEYE, Chad, Nov 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Leila Ousmane and her 10-year-old daughter walk in disbelief atop the crumbling bricks that, until a few days earlier, formed the walls of their family home.
Heavy rains and floods in late September ravaged the Dosseye refugee camp where they live, toppling their house of mud bricks and wooden stumps into rubble.
“We went to live with my neighbour,” said Ousmane. “But last night, the storm made their house collapse too.”
Chad, a country already beset by economic and humanitarian crises, faces another looming disaster: climate change.
It was ranked as the country most vulnerable to the effects of global warming in a 2016 index compiled by risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft. The annual ranking combines exposure to climate change with a state's capacity to respond.
While governments discuss ways to slow climate change at annual U.N. talks in Bonn from Nov. 6-17, the impacts of a hotter planet are already wreaking havoc in Chad, a landlocked Central African nation with a population of 14 million.
In Dosseye camp in the south, thousands of refugees from Central African Republic, chased from their homes by murderous gangs since 2013, have found themselves ousted from their new homes once again - this time by extreme weather, which is predicted to get worse as the planet warms.
Ousmane's family was one of about 600 whose makeshift dwellings were flooded or destroyed in late September.
Across the region, roads and fields were submerged under water, making transport difficult and spoiling harvests.
The flood waters also increased the risk of cholera, malaria, dengue fever and other diseases, experts said.
“We see such cases (of flooding) more and more,” said Ferdinand Dana Obo, who works in southern Chad for the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), a religious body that does aid work.
In recent years, the rains have come earlier and lasted longer, disrupting local farming and cattle-rearing, Obo said.
Heavy rains and floods in late September ravaged the Dosseye refugee camp where they live, toppling their house of mud bricks and wooden stumps into rubble.
“We went to live with my neighbour,” said Ousmane. “But last night, the storm made their house collapse too.”
Chad, a country already beset by economic and humanitarian crises, faces another looming disaster: climate change.
It was ranked as the country most vulnerable to the effects of global warming in a 2016 index compiled by risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft. The annual ranking combines exposure to climate change with a state's capacity to respond.
While governments discuss ways to slow climate change at annual U.N. talks in Bonn from Nov. 6-17, the impacts of a hotter planet are already wreaking havoc in Chad, a landlocked Central African nation with a population of 14 million.
In Dosseye camp in the south, thousands of refugees from Central African Republic, chased from their homes by murderous gangs since 2013, have found themselves ousted from their new homes once again - this time by extreme weather, which is predicted to get worse as the planet warms.
Ousmane's family was one of about 600 whose makeshift dwellings were flooded or destroyed in late September.
Across the region, roads and fields were submerged under water, making transport difficult and spoiling harvests.
The flood waters also increased the risk of cholera, malaria, dengue fever and other diseases, experts said.
“We see such cases (of flooding) more and more,” said Ferdinand Dana Obo, who works in southern Chad for the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), a religious body that does aid work.
In recent years, the rains have come earlier and lasted longer, disrupting local farming and cattle-rearing, Obo said.
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Global warming it is so dangerous to all live things
By pollution only global warming is happens first we stop pollution then we can stop global warming also
By pollution only global warming is happens first we stop pollution then we can stop global warming also
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