October 30, 2019 7:53 AM

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Landslide claims 42 lives in Cameroon

<span style="color: #222222;">In Cameroon, at least 42 people were killed yesterday in a landslide caused by torrential rain, reported the State media.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to local official, the landslide was caused by torrential rains that have fallen in the country over the past few days as well as the wider region, with neighbouring Central African Republic and Nigeria also seriously hit.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Neighbouring Central African Republic, already mired in a brutal civil war, is reeling from 10 days of torrential rain which have plunged swathes of the country underwater, creating a new emergency in one of the world's poorest nations.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Several agrarian States in another Cameroon neighbour, Nigeria, have also been hit by flooding.</span><br />

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