UN sends disaster assessment team to Burkina Faso
New York, 07 sept-(ANA)-A United Nations disaster assessment and coordination team has arrived in Burkina Faso, where torrential rains that have soaked much of West Africa have killed at least five people and forced around 150,000 others to find alternative shelter. 
 
The seven-member team is scheduled to begin assessing how it can help 
authorities respond to the most urgent humanitarian needs in the wake of the 
flooding that has inundated much of the capital, Ouagadougou. 

Media reports have described the storms that brought the torrential rain to the 
capital as the worst in 90 years. This year’s rainy season in West Africa is 
unusually heavy, and Ms. Byrs says as many as 350,000 people across the region have been affected. (ANA)

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