2019–2020 Congo River floods

[1] The DRC and RoC have historically experienced recurrent flooding along the Congo River and its main tributaries during the rainy season, causing erosion and landslides, and negatively impacting human settlements, agriculture, and public health.

[8] In the RoC, more than 100 villages were submerged with homes destroyed along the departments of Likouala, Cuvette and Plateaux, impacting around 170,000 of the most vulnerable of the population, of which around 30,000 were refugees.

[12] On November 19, 2019, the government of the RoC declared a humanitarian disaster and state of emergency in the departments of Likouala, Cuvette and Plateaux,[13] while seeking assistance from the international community.

A UN report suggested the government had limited capacity to deal with the emergency and that there was insufficient human and financial resources to ensure coverage of those affected.

[14] The United Nations Emergency Relief Fund was rapidly deployed[16] and local responsibility for coordination was assigned to the RoC's Ministry of Social Affairs and Humanitarian Action.