In Guinea, this Thursday, March 28, marked the hundredth day after the explosion of the Conakry hydrocarbon depot, the country’s main fuel storage site. Twenty-five people were killed and more than 400 injured. On the occasion of this hundredth day, the victims demonstrated to denounce the lack of assistance from the Guinean authorities.
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Mamoudou Cifo Kè Touré, president of the disaster victims collective, reported on Saturday March 30 that the victims had never benefited from the donations intended for them. Contacted by RFI, Lancei Touré, director of the National Agency Guinean management of emergencies and humanitarian disasters, ensures, on the contrary, that the donations have reached the victims and that the State is working to support them: “ Disaster victims have indeed received the donations. Today, we are able to tell you how many and what we received in donations, who deposited, indicating their telephone number, what left the store and who are the victims who received and who left their number phone number and their photo. »
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“The first assessmenthe continues, is estimated at 2,141 households. These 2,141 identified households received food kits. Each household received ten bags of rice and, then, cans of oil and other foodstuffs such as boxes of soap and boxes of tomatoes. »
“In Coronthie 1 and Coronthie 2, the most impacted neighborhoods, households who think they have not been served simply have to go through the neighborhoods. The neighborhoods draw up the list and the mayor sends it to us. We then make an evaluation, we cross-reference the data to see if it is not a duplicate and if the household has not been served. Then we serve. The President of the Republic said to serve everyone who has been impacted, and that is what we are doing », underlines the director of the National Agency for Humanitarian Emergency and Disaster Management.
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