Africa flood crisis sweeps Nigeria and Burkina
LAGOS (AFP) — Floods that have made hundreds of thousands of Africans homeless across vast swathes of the continent have claimed 64 lives in Nigeria and 33 in Burkina Faso, government and aid officials said Thursday.
Nigeria's Red Cross said the death toll covered a period since mid-July, while 22,000 people have been displaced in 10 sometimes arid northern states of the most populous nation in Africa as well as in the Lagos area, the huge economic capital in the southwest.
The minister of social action and national solidarity in landlocked Burkina Faso, one of west Africa's poorest nations, said 33 people had been killed over a similar period and almost 7,500 homes had been destroyed.
No comments:
Post a Comment