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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Benin Floods: What You See Here is Suffering

In Benin, massive flooding has impacted over 680,000 people. The World Food Programme (WFP) is coming to the aid of flood victims. One of them, Josaphat Yêhouéssi, described the devastation saying, "What you see here is suffering."

Yêhouéssi lost everything he owned in the flooding. His home is gone. His fields are gone. Everything happened in a relative instant. At a roadside tent, he told WFP, "I have six children and I have nothing to give them."

Read the full article at Blogcritics Magazine