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At least 35,000 flood victims in Mauritania and Senegal will receive aid to the sum of 650,000 euro (about US $700,000) from the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO), ECHO reported this week.
Flooding in the south Mauritanian region of Rosso and across the border in the department of Podor in northern Senegal has seriously disrupted agriculture, leaving 30,000 Mauritanians and 5,000 Senegalese homeless. They need shelter and sanitary conditions in reception centres for the displaced so as to prevent epidemics, ECHO said.
The aid will be managed by ECHO and distributed by the Italian and Spanish Red Cross societies.
The Spanish and Senegalese Red Cross societies are already undertaking ECHO-financed aid projects in Podor. On Monday, they started distributing 5,000 blankets, 2,500 mats, 500 cooking utensils and 100 tents. They have also provided three large shelters that serve as classrooms and dispensaries. Other aid includes 300 mt of cereals, agricultural tools, seeds, disinfectant and soap, ECHO reported.
Similarly, victims in Mauritania started receiving 15,000 blankets, 5,000 tents, 7,000 mats, 15,000 cooking utensils and 1,500 buckets. They will also be supplied with disinfectant, soap, cereal, and agricultural tools.
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