Emergency evacuation and red alert in several districts of the capital

An urgent call was launched, in the middle of the night, by the National Bureau for Risk and Disaster Management (BNGRC) for the inhabitants of the high city of Antananarivo.The inhabitants located in several districts were asked to leave their homes following a landslide that would have occurred below the cathedral of Andohalo and the imminent risks of landslides on the western and east flanks of Manjakamiadana,

The inhabitants of Amparibe, Ambatovinaky, Ankadilalana, Tsimialonjafy, Tsarafaritra, AmboHipotsy, Andohinimandry, Faliarivo Ambanidia, Manjakamiadana and Andafiavaratra were thus invited to leave the premises in the night.Police and soldiers later mobilized to educate the inhabitants of Ampamarinana to follow the instructions given.

In the districts located in low altitude, located in the immediate vicinity of the rivers of the Ikopa, Sisaony and Mamba, the inhabitants were also asked to leave their homes in another opinion launched by the BNGRC in the evening.The Director General of the Authority for the Protection against the Flood of the Plaine of Antananarivo (APIPA), Ranto Rakotonjanahary, explained that the three rivers are still placed in red vigilance, that is to say that the riskflood is imminent.These rivers can get out of their beds at any time.This is the reason why, a call to leave the premises for the inhabitants concerned by the opinion launched by the BNGRC was broadcast, he added.

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— Ross Ahmed Fri Jul 23 07:51:08 +0000 2021

On the side of Androndrakely and the Bypass road, the waters are mounted and the rice fields are practically flooded, just like several houses which are established there.

Yesterday, during the day, a dike of Sisaony, located at ampitatafika has already sold under the pressure of the waters.Because of the rupture of this dike, a good part of the city of Anosizato Andrefana was under the waters.During the night of Sunday to Monday, in Ambohitrimanjaka, the authorities also carried out an emergency evacuation in the middle of the night.