West African flood deaths reignite debate over slum evictions and urban planning

Deadly floods in West African cities have exposed tensions between disaster risk reduction and housing security, as informal settlements built on flood-prone land face renewed pressure for relocation amid poor infrastructure and city overcr

First covered Jul 20, 2026 · 4:22 AM PT · 1 article

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17h Climate Home News Flood deaths in West African cities raise fraught issue of slum evictions — Deadly floods expose poor urban planning, over-population and spread of informal settlements on disaster-prone land - a problem authorities are struggling to…

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More coverage from around the web

link.springer.com Built-in Flood Risk: the Intertwinement of Flood Risk and Unregulated Urban Expansion in African Cities | Urban Forum | Springer Nature Link

preventionweb.net Poor urban planning partly to blame for West Africa flooding | PreventionWeb

frontiersin.org Frontiers | Flood risk reduction and resilient city growth in sub-Saharan Africa: searching for coherence in Accra's urban planning

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Cities and floods: A pragmatic insight into the determinants of households’ coping strategies to floods in informal Accra, Ghana - PMC

sciencedirect.com What the state does but fails: Exploring smart options for urban flood risk management in informal Accra, Ghana - ScienceDirect

Appeared in: 2026-07-20 (#18) · 2026-07-21 (#15)

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