The torrential rains have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more across the region this year.
A wave of deadly flooding in West and Central Africa left the remains of crocodiles and snakes floating among human bodies.
State of emergency declared as 18 inches of rain in one night brings high floodwaters to North Carolina beach townResident Saleh Bukar, 28, said he was woken up last week around midnight to the sound of his neighbors yelling, “Water is flooding everywhere!”Some elderly people and those with disabilities were left behind, he said. Those who did not wake up in time drowned immediately.
The floods displaced at least 600,000 people in Boro, while at least 100 were killed and 58 injured, the UN reported. Adamou, who was widowed four years ago, is now living with her six children in a temporary shelter next to their former hut.“I understood there was a change in the weather,” she said. “I have never seen a big rain like this year here in Agadez.”
In sub-Saharan Africa, the cost of adapting to extreme weather is estimated between $30-50 billion per year over the next decade, the WMO’s report indicated.
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