Floods Devastate West and Central Africa. Flooding caused by heavy rains has left more than 1,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed. Listen to this article · 7:13 min Learn ...

West Africa faces more heavy rains this week after flooding in a region that’s seen at least 2.3 million people displaced by rising waters in 2024 alone. Severe floods in Nigeria have affected ...

Floods in mostly arid Niger have impacted over 841,000 people, killing hundreds and displacing more than 400,000. Harira Adamou, a 50-year-old single mother of six, is one of them.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- The death toll in floods in South Africa's Eastern Cape province has risen to 86, the police ...

Floods across 14 central and West African nations have affected at least 4 million people — rendering many of them homeless — killed about 1,000 and are devastating crops in a region that’s ...

ABUJA, BAMAKO, NIAMEY, (September 06, 2024) – Recent heavy rains and floods across West Africa have forced nearly 950,000 people,[1] many of them children, from their homes across Mali, Nigeria and ...

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa was under a declared state of national disaster on Thursday as the death toll from floods caused ...

Recent heavy rains and floods across West Africa have forced nearly 950,000 people [1], many of them children, from their homes across Mali, Nigeria and Niger, Save the Children said. The hundreds of ...

As torrential rains sweep through Central and West Africa, floods have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands across the region By Associated Press Sept. 20, 2024 ...

Maiduguri is the latest city in West Africa to experience deadly floods after a heavier than usual rainy season. The rains have swept through Mali, Niger, Liberia, Chad and Cameroon.

West Africa: Floods Devastate West and Central Africa. WFP. Azimi Abubakar, 50, a resident of Gasamu, wades through the floodwater in Jakusko LGA of Yobe State, Nigeria, on 01 October 2022.