The Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA) has disclosed that a total of 11 people died as due to flooding in about five local governments of the state. It stated that five lives were ...

Families left homeless in the remote Diffa region in southeast Niger and Agadez in the north have not received assistance yet. About 80,000 animals have died in Agadez flooding. "We must find a ...

The floods caused the deaths of 396 people throughout the course of 2024, as confirmed by Interior Minister Mohamed Toumba.

In the small village of Ogba-Ojibo in central Nigeria, sitting at the confluence of two of the nation’s largest rivers – the Niger and Benue – 27-year-old Ako Prince Omali is counting the ...

IN the last three months, no fewer than 314 Nigerians have been drowned across the country by furious floods with the ...

Since June, heavy rains in Niger have caused 273 deaths and affected more than 700,000 people, according to local authorities earlier this month. The floods have devastated infrastructure ...

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2. Floods in the Sahel region are becoming more frequent and widespread. Since early July, intense rainfall has affected communities along the Niger-Nigeria border, triggering flooding which has ...

Nearly 400 people died in Niger and more than 1.5 million others were affected by floods triggered by last year's ...

Nearly 400 people died in Niger and more than 1.5 million others were affected by floods triggered by last year's exceptionally torrential rains, according to a final toll announced on Saturday.