Description

- Villages struggling to access clean water
- Wells submerged under floodwater and/or contaminated by runoff mixed with human waste and rubbish
- Significant proportion of the population suffering from diarrhoea
- Malaria considered high risk because standing water is providing ideal breeding grounds for mosquitos: people sleeping out in the open since their homes have been destroyed are particularly vulnerable

- Roads to Toliara (200km to the south) and Morombe (50km to the north) completely blocked by severe flooding
- Lack of access to markets having considerable impacts on food availability and livelihoods (sale of fish, octopus, sea cucumbers, etc)