At least 15 people have died and hundreds have been forced to leave their homes due to severe flooding in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast, the country's interior minister said. Another 115 people had been rescued and taken to shelters. Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer and Francophone West Africa's largest economy, is in the middle of its rainy season and meteorologists have forecast heavy rains until late June.
Floods in Abidjan, Ivory Coast killed 20 people and destroyed several houses and roads.