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UNHCR: Destructive floods affect millions of people in Africa
More than 3.4 million displaced people are in desperate need of assistance following the recent devastating floods in Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali and Cameroon, the UN refugee agency warned on October 28. , local time.
In Nigeria, the worst floods in the last decade have claimed hundreds of lives and over 1.3 million displaced.
In Chad, where 1 million people have been affected, the government has declared a state of emergency. Torrential rains blew up the banks of the Chari and Logon rivers in southern Chad, flooding farmland and killing livestock, forcing more than 90,000 people to flee their homes to seek refuge in the capital, N’Djamena.
In Cameroon, over 63,000 people were affected in the regions of Kousseri, Zena, Macari, Brangua and Logombini.
Above-average rains and floods have killed hundreds of people, displaced thousands and destroyed more than one million hectares of agricultural land in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso.
Meanwhile, the worst drought in 40 years has threatened famine in the Horn of Africa, with historic flooding in South Sudan and Sudan for the fourth consecutive year. In 2022, extreme weather across Africa killed hundreds of people and forced millions of people to flee their homes. (Headquarters reporter Ma Peimin)
