No fewer than 600 people have died since June 2022 across Nigeria in the deadliest floods experienced in a decade, an AFP report has said. No fewer than 195 people have been reportedly dead and while more than 322,000 were also affected by the flooding caused by torrential rain in Niger Republic. This was made known by an official toll on Saturday. The United Nations had raised the alarm that flooding in Nigeria affected more than 2.8 million men, women, and children.
This was stated by UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric during a press briefing at the UN headquarters in New York.
No fewer than 195 people have been reportedly dead and while more than 322,000 were also affected by the flooding caused by torrential rain in Niger Republic.The United Nations had raised the alarm that flooding in Nigeria affected more than 2.8 million men, women, and children. Earlier this month it said rainy-season floods had claimed 192 lives and affected more than 263,000 people in Niger, located in the heart of the arid Sahel.
The worst-affected regions are Maradi and Zinder in the centre of the country, Dosso in the southwest and Tahoua in the west.
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