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A group, African Public Relations Association (APRA), an umbrella assemblage of nationalist relations practitioners and professionals successful Africa, has commiserated with the Governments and the radical of Nigeria and Cameroon implicit the floods ravaging the countries, peculiarly the caller flooding successful Borno State and different parts of the Northeast portion successful Nigeria.
APRA lamented the occurrence of the distressing floods caused by torrential rains.
This was contained successful a connection issued connected Tuesday by its Secretary-General, Omoniyi lbietan and made disposable to DAILY POST.
The connection reads successful part, “in some instances, the floods person resulted successful the decease of galore people, displacement of persons, and unprecedented successful its upsetting of the ecology.
“APRA notes with sedate compassion and superior concerns the interaction of the floods connected markets and by accusation livelihoods successful Maiduguri and environs arsenic good arsenic the reported flight of wildlife, including snakes and different lethal reptiles aft the flooding partially destroyed a zoo.
“In Cameroon, implicit a 100 superior and secondary schools are affected arsenic good arsenic livestock, infrastructure and livelihoods.
“In these incidents, we are faced with humanitarian crises and, therefore, truly acrophobic astir the recurrence, conscionable a period aft the illness of Arba’at Dam successful Sudan that arsenic caused deaths and displacement of persons successful galore communities.
“APRA is determined to enactment with each governments, institutions and different stakeholders wrong and extracurricular the continent to code connection absorption connected clime alteration and different topical issues cardinal to securing livelihoods, improving prime of beingness and enhancing maturation crossed sectors successful Africa.
“Just 2 months ago, APRA leaders met with different stakeholders wrong the Association to denote the institutionalization of committees to enactment connected circumstantial challenges of African people. One of these teams focuses connected the African Union and Related Linkages.
“Through that committee, APRA plans to leverage its perceiver presumption with the African Union and to prosecute with due councils of ministers to heighten connection absorption that volition alteration galore sectors successful Africa.
“APRA is agreed down the aims of the governments and peoples of Nigeria and Cameroon to find solutions to the humanitarian crises attending the disasters.
“The cardinal governments of these countries, the subnational governments successful Borno State and Far North Province successful Nigeria and Cameroon respectively, and different section and planetary stakeholders are commended connected their responses to the crises to bring succour to those affected by the floods.
“On behalf of each members, the Executive Council of APRA hereby sends sincere condolence to those who mislaid household members and friends, and privation the displaced, the injured arsenic good arsenic those whose livelihoods person been affected a speedy recovery.”
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