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Ivory Coast: a new wave of evictions, without compensation or rehousing solution
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A hole formed in Abobo, near Abidjan.
Charlie Dupiot / RFI
By: François Hume-Ferkatadji Follow
1 min
The Ministry of Hydraulics, Sanitation and Health has launched a major “eviction” operation, aimed at keeping people away from risk areas: flooding, landslides or landslides.
At least 25,000 people, spread over 54 sites in eight of the ten municipalities of Abidjan, are affected.
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Every year in Côte d'Ivoire, and particularly in the economic capital, people die due to heavy rains, which are frequent during the months of June and July.
If Minister Bouaké Fofana thus hopes to "
save lives
", the associations helping the "evicted" denounce brutal evictions, without rehousing solution, and continue to demand the exact list of sites concerned by these destructions of housing, fearing unacknowledged real estate or industrial projects.
This global eviction project is one of the largest in recent years, along with those related to the construction of the metro, or the removal of the Abobo scrapyard.
The evictions, whether related to infrastructure or real estate projects, have concerned around 5,000 people per year since 2012.
Report in the district of Abobo Cloetcha where landslides are frequent.
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