Large swathes of the state have been under water for several years after unprecedented flooding, which scientists say has ...

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

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

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, ...

Climate change affects West and Central Africa, resulting in hundreds of deaths and thousands of displaced people every rainy season.

Others are still missing, though how many remains unclear. Rescuers feared finding more bodies, the defense minister said.

Torrential rains and severe flooding have affected around 6.9 million people in West and Central Africa so far in 2024 ... and officials around Lokoja said floods first became more severe in ...

The "extreme" weather and "intense" rainfall triggering deadly floods and displacing millions of people in West Africa this year are the "effects of climate change," says Senegalese climate expert ...

Some of the creeping impacts of this triple crisis are possibly the most debilitating: Africa is the most severely impacted ...

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 ...