At least 94 people have lost their lives and more than 137,000 have been affected by the floods that have hit Niger since June, as the Ministry of Humanitarian Action and Disaster Management of the Sahel state announced yesterday. The Nigerian authorities’ tally as of August 7 spoke of 137,156 people affected, 93 injured and “unfortunately, 94 lives lost, including 44 from drowning and 50 from house collapses,” Minister Aisha Lawan Oudarma said during a press conference yesterday. A previous count, announced on July 15 by the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), put the death toll at 53 and 18,000 affected. According to the same source, those affected may exceed 247,000 before the rainy season ends in September. The phenomenon is being exacerbated by “climate change” in the largely desert country, OCHA noted. The capital Niamey, which had remained unscathed thus far, suffered blows and […]
Source: News Beast
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