Wide areas of farmland are submerged in north and eastern regions of the West African country, sweeping away the livelihoods ...

As global leaders convene for the COP29 climate conference today, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) warns of ...

Monsoon Havoc Exposes West and Central Africa's Rising ... infrastructure and official preparedness plans. Africa's economic losses linked to floods have been rising. A report by the World ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is urgently appealing for $10.6 million to address the most pressing needs of 228,000 forcibly displaced people and their host communities across West and Central Africa, ...

Every rainy season for the past 12 years, floods have swept through 67-year-old Idris Egbunu's house in central Nigeria.

Displacing nearly one million people, the floods have worsened an already fragile situation. “For many children in West and Central Africa, the start of the school year is synonymous with ...

More than 5 million people in 16 countries in West and Central Africa have been impacted by floods so far this year. [Getty Images] More than 5 million people in 16 countries in West and Central ...

The "extreme" weather and "intense" rainfall triggering deadly floods and displacing millions of people in West Africa this ...

Over the last few months, heavy rains have flooded every one of Chad's 23 provinces, burst a dam in northern Nigeria, damaged ancient buildings in Niger's desert town of Agadez, and killed more than 1 ...

Every rainy season for the past 12 years, floods have swept through 67 ... have affected around 6.9 million people in West and Central Africa so far in 2024, according to data from the United ...

Displacing nearly one million people, the floods have worsened an already fragile situation. "For many children in West and Central Africa, the start of the school year is synonymous with sadness ...