Douala floods affect nearly 500 households and displace about 200
Flood
How the score is calculated
The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.
- Affected people
- 1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
- Deaths
- 1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
- Displaced people
- 1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
- Casualties
- 100 or more: +8
- Story wording
- +10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.
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In brief
- What happenedFlooding in Douala, Cameroon, after heavy rain on the night of 12–13 September 2026 affected nearly 500 households and forced about 200 people to leave their homes, according to an OCHA situation update drawing on the Wouri divisional committee of the Cameroon Red Cross.
- Reported impactAffected households: Nearly 500 · OCHA point published 18 September · People displaced: About 200 left their homes after the 12–13 September flooding · Areas noted: Douala I and Douala V among the hardest affected
- What help is neededOCHA also raised concerns that overflowing latrines had contaminated drinking-water sources.
What changed
Updated verified snapshot
This record was first dated 2026-09-13 and last verified 2026-09-18.
Situation
Flooding in Douala, Cameroon, after heavy rain on the night of 12–13 September 2026 affected nearly 500 households and forced about 200 people to leave their homes, according to an OCHA situation update drawing on the Wouri divisional committee of the Cameroon Red Cross. Douala I and Douala V were among the hardest-hit areas.
The reported impacts are approximate and reflect the cited Wouri source scope. OCHA also raised concerns that overflowing latrines had contaminated drinking-water sources. The cited report provides no verified casualty count, disease-case total, or citywide infrastructure denominator; none is inferred here.
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WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 1 attributed source, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 5 human-impact figures were separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.
Verified figures
- Affected households
- Nearly 500 · OCHA point published 18 September retained at 2026-09-18
- People displaced
- About 200 left their homes after the 12–13 September flooding retained at 2026-09-18
- Areas noted
- Douala I and Douala V among the hardest affected retained at 2026-09-18
- Sanitation / water
- Overflowing latrines reported to have contaminated drinking-water sources retained at 2026-09-18
- Casualties
- No verified casualty count in the cited OCHA point retained at 2026-09-18
What we knew when
- WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
- OCHA-ATTRIBUTED WOURI OBSERVATION · NEARLY 500 HOUSEHOLDS AFFECTED · ABOUT 200 DISPLACED preserved as a dated, source-linked observation. Source
Earlier figures are never replaced by later values; additional observations are retained as new ledger entries.
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