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- The death toll from floods in Nigeria has risen to over 300.
- The floods that have lasted since July are the worst in decades.
- Manzo Ezekiel, spokesman for the Civil Protection Agency (NEMA), said.
500 people were injured in the floods, so more than 100,000 had to leave their homes, Ezekiel from Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) told the German Press Agency.
The reason for the devastating floods was heavy rain in the past few months, said NEMA director Mustapha Habib Ahmed after a crisis meeting on Monday. As a result, the Niger River and its largest tributary, the Benue, carried immense masses of water.
Dams could overflow
The authorities in the most populous country in Africa, with around 200 million inhabitants, fear that the situation could deteriorate further. Several dams in Nigeria and neighboring Cameroon threaten to overflow by the end of October at the latest.
The three northern regions of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, which have already lost large areas of arable land to the floods, are particularly threatened. Ongoing conflicts with the extremist terror group Boko Haram are another reason for a severe hunger crisis in the region.
SRF 4 News current, September 21, 2022, 12:00 a.m.; dpa / Reuters; Külc
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