The city of Maiduguri, in northern Nigeria, has been hit by devastating flooding. But is it due to government neglect or climate change — or both?

Floods are worsening by the year in Nigeria and standard food aid programmes after each disaster are not enough.

Nigerian farmer Enoch Fater has barely slept in the last few days after water levels started rising at his paddy rice farm ...

Schools in Niger will start the new academic year almost a month late because of heavy rainfall and flooding, says the ...

The torrential rains have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more across the region this year.

Google has enhanced its Open Buildings 2.5D Temporal Dataset, making it an essential resource for urban planning and disaster ...

Nigerian farmer Enoch Fater has barely slept in the last few days after water levels started rising at his paddy rice farm and in a major river nearby, pointing to impending floods in Benue state.

Like other countries in the semi-arid Sahel region of West Africa, Niger is suffering from the impact of climate change. As ...

At least 621 people have been killed and thousands more displaced by floods around Lake Chad, which sits at the border region ...

Seyi Tinubu, son of Nigeria's president, visited Borno to sympathise with flood victims in Maiduguri. Along with friends & ...

"We are deeply devastated by the flood," Auxiliary Bishop John Bakeni of Maiduguri said in a statement sent to OSV News Sept.

As torrential rains sweep through Central and West Africa, floods have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds ...