Floods Threaten World Heritage City in Niger
Niamey, Aug 16 (Prensa Latina) The heavy rains which have been lashing areas of Niger for weeks now threaten to destroy the historic centre of the city of Agadez (center), a World Heritage Site since 2013.
The authorities have advised the local population to prepare for possible flash floods from the waters descending from the Air Mountains due to the persistence of the annual monsoon rains which have killed 22 people in recent weeks.
Last Wednesday two people died in Agadez due to the collapsing of a building, a mosque and a school, according to the authorities.
Agadez was founded in the 15th century BC and prospered by the Tuareg caravans who crossed the Sahara and turned it into a center for the commercialization of salt extracted from the mines of the Bilna city.
Among the Agadez monuments, most of them built with adobe, are a series of palace and religious buildings, among the last ones a 27-meter high minaret; the estimated population of the city is 145,000 inhabitants.
The minaret is the tower that crowns the mosques from which the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer.
Agadez was founded in the 15th century BC and prospered by the Tuareg caravans who crossed the Sahara and turned it into a center for the commercialization of salt extracted from the mines of the Bilna city.
Among the Agadez monuments, most of them built with adobe, are a series of palace and religious buildings, among the last ones a 27-meter high minaret; the estimated population of the city is 145,000 inhabitants.
The minaret is the tower that crowns the mosques from which the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer.
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