Nigeria: UN agencies assist families affected by floods | UN News
WEB2 days ago · 17 September 2024 Humanitarian Aid. UN agencies and their humanitarian partners are providing life-saving relief to families in Nigeria who lost their homes during recent flooding. Heavy rains have ravaged 30 of the country’s 36 states, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday. The Government has reported 269 …
Flooding in Nigeria leaves 30 people dead, over a million …
WEBSep 11, 2024 · Updated 2:37 PM PDT, September 11, 2024. ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Severe flooding in northeastern Nigeria has left 30 people dead and affected more than a million others, authorities said on Wednesday. The collapse of a major dam in the state of Borno on Tuesday caused some of the state’s worst flooding since the same dam collapsed 30 years ...
‘Half the city underwater’: One million affected by northern Nigeria floods
WEBSep 12, 2024 · One million people affected as floods hit northeast Nigeria. The floods hit Borno State early this week after a dam impounding a regional river burst its banks. The heavy surge of water buried...
Nigeria: At least 170 killed in weeks of flooding | CNN
WEBAug 27, 2024 · At least 170 people have died and more than 200,000 others are displaced following weeks of flooding in Africa’s most populous country, a spokesperson for Nigeria’s disaster management agency...
Floods gush through Nigerian zoo, sweeping snakes and …
WEBSep 11, 2024 · Floodwaters that gushed from an overflowing dam in northern Nigeria engulfed a zoo and swept animals including crocodiles and snakes into communities, as the region battles some of the worst ...
Nigeria Alau Dam collapse in Maiduguri: Survivors desperate as
WEBSep 12, 2024 · The family, who live south of the city of Maiduguri near the Alau Dam, were asleep when their house began filling with water in the early hours of Tuesday. “I woke up at 1am when I felt water on ...
Nigeria floods affect one million people after dam collapse
WEBSep 11, 2024 · The National Emergency Management Agency said that floods in Nigeria have killed 229 people since the start of the year. In late August, flooding killed 49 people and displaced thousands in three ...
Floods in Nigeria have killed scores and washed away farmland, …
WEBAug 31, 2024 · The floods blamed on poor infrastructure and badly maintained dams have killed 185 people and displaced 208,000 in 28 of Nigeria’s 36 states, the National Emergency Management Agency said in an update Friday, triggering frantic efforts to evacuate hundreds of thousands to makeshift shelters.
Floods in Nigeria kill at least 49, displace thousands
WEBAug 26, 2024 · At least 49 people have been killed and thousands displaced in Nigeria after heavy rains caused flooding in the northeast of the country, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has...
Nigeria floods: 'Overwhelming' disaster leaves more than 600 ... - BBC
WEBOct 16, 2022 · Recent flooding in Nigeria has become an "overwhelming" disaster, and many states were not properly prepared for them despite warnings, the minister for disaster management has said.