{"id":11988,"date":"2018-08-18T23:22:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T23:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11988"},"modified":"2018-08-18T23:22:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T23:22:01","slug":"flooding-leaves-parts-of-liberias-capital-under-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11988","title":{"rendered":"Flooding leaves parts of Liberia&#8217;s capital under water"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"93.8782924614\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Torrential rain has lashed the west coast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/regions\/africa.html\">Africa<\/a>, leaving parts of Liberian capital Monrovia under water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The flooded streets witnessed long traffic jams, a number of rickshaws broke down and pedestrians were forced to wade through the floodwater.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The rain also caused flooding of several houses.<\/p>\n<p>The worst affected are those living on wetlands, something which is prohibited by the Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Locals said that the constant dumping of rubbish and plastic waste in drains likely to have exacerbated the flooding.<\/p>\n<p>Monrovia was not the only place to experience torrential rain. An airport in Grand Bassa, south of the capital, reported 360mm of rain in 24 hours &#8211; roughly the amount that is expected in the entire month of August.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/liberia.html\">Liberia<\/a> has two wet seasons, which run very close together, one as the rains move north and a second as it moves south again.<\/p>\n<p>The wettest months are June and July, and September and October.<\/p>\n<p>August, generally, is a slightly drier month.<\/p>\n<p>This year, however, heavy rain has been witnessed in August and locals fear more flooding in the coming months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE: <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Torrential rain has lashed the west coast of Africa, leaving parts of Liberian capital Monrovia under water. The flooded streets witnessed long traffic jams, a number of rickshaws broke down and pedestrians were forced to wade through the floodwater. The rain also caused flooding of several houses. The worst affected are those living on wetlands,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}