At least 603 people have been killed by flooding in Nigeria, and all but three of the 36 states in the West African nation have been impacted, the Nigerian humanitarian affairs ministry said.
news agency Agence France-Presse. “I’ve been here for the other floods but I’ve never seen anything like that.”Twenty people have died from floods in the country this year and the flooding has also caused $3.3 billion in damage.
Among those displaced by the floods are thousands of Nigerians who were already in camps — which the flooding destroyed — for internally displaced people, due to the regional conflict. At least 15,000 Nigerians “are in immediate need of shelter and food due to floods which destroyed their camps,” The organization said that funding remains short and the threats of worse impacts and prolonged famine loom.on Sunday. “All of a sudden, people are left with no homes and turned to beggars in weeks. No matter how rich they were, the displacement has reduced them so much.”in Anambra when a boat they were using to escape roof-high floodwaters capsized.
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