In a statement on August 5, 2026, the Minister of Housing Célestine Ketcha Courtès reviewed the torrential rains in Limbé: 3 dead, injured, collapsed houses, and landslides. She ordered the mobilization of emergency brigades and called for more civic responsibility, denouncing garbage dumping and the occupation of flood-prone areas.
The Government is working hard after the deadly storms that hit Limbé.
In a statement signed on August 5, 2026, the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Célestine Ketcha Courtès, provides a heavy provisional assessment: severe flooding, landslides, the collapse of residential buildings, and the tragic loss of three human lives. Several injured people have been treated in health facilities.
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While expressing her condolences to the affected families, the minister instructed administrative authorities and mayors. Objective: to immediately mobilize intervention brigades to clear risk areas, secure impacted infrastructures, and urgently clean blocked drainage channels.
Célestine Ketcha Courtès recalls the major investments made by the State for the sanitation of cities. But she emphasizes that their effectiveness is compromised by human factors. She cites illegal dumping of solid waste in gutters and the illegal occupation of flood-prone areas and unsuitable spaces.
As weather forecasts announce increased flood risks in major metropolitan areas in the coming months, the minister demands “strict enforcement of urban planning rules” by municipal executives.
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Finally, she makes a solemn appeal for civic responsibility among the populations, with ongoing sanitation campaigns involving neighborhood committees and civil society.
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