Inkangu n’ imyuzure byabaye nka misa ya mbere muri Nyabihu

Akarere ka Nyabihu gafite ubuso bwinshi bw’ imisozi ihanamye, bikaba bituma 90% by’uturere tugize ako karere ari imisozi ihanamye. 

Umuyoboro w’amazi n’imigezi (torrents) ukomeye usanga mu career, kandi ubutaka buba buhanamye cyane cyane mu bibaya byegeranye na ako karere ibi byose bigatuma gucika kw’ubutaka (landslides) bibaho kenshi.  

Akarere ka Nyabihu kohereza imvura iboneka buri mwaka iri hafi ya 1,300 mm mu bushakashatsi bumwe, ugereranyije n’abandi mu Ntara y’Iburengerazuba.  

Mu bushakashatsi “Spatial analysis of the impacts of landslides occurrence… A case study of Nyabihu district”, byagaragaje ko hafi 49.77% by’akarere ka Nyabihu kiri mu rwego rwa “high landslide susceptibility” (gushobora kwibasirwa cyane na landslides), naho 2.54% kiri mu rwego rwa “very high susceptibility”.  

Mu kigereranyo cy’igihugu “National Risk Atlas of Rwanda”, akarere ka Nyabihu kagaragazwa nka kamwe mu karere gafite “highest percentage of population exposed to landslides at high susceptibility”.  

Mu gihe cy’imvura nyinshi mu kwezi kwa  Kane 2025, mu Rwanda hose byagaragaye ko abantu 52 bahitanywe na disasters ziterewe n’imvura mu minsi 16 gusa, ndetse imwe mu turere twavuzwe harimo Nyabihu.  

Umuyoboro w’amakuru wagaragaje ko mu gihe cyo gutegura umwaka wa 2024, imvura mu turere nka Nyabihu yagize ibyago byo kugwa hagati ya 700-800 mm mu gihembwe kimwe (werurwe -Gicuransi)mu bice byayo by’amajyaruguru cyangwa iburengerazuba. 

By: Florence Uwamaliya