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

Torrential downpours hit North Africa’s normally arid mountains and deserts over the weekend. They caused flooding that ...

Flooding caused by heavy rains has left more than 1,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed.

Floods across a swath of central and West Africa have displaced at least 2.9 million people, killed about 1,000 and are ...

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USAID has provided nearly $1.4 billion in total humanitarian assistance across West and Central Africa to date in Fiscal Year 2024. But as intense rains and resulting flooding continue to drive ...

NGO Save the children alerted Friday (Sep. 06) about the risk of disease, hunger from crop destruction, and disruption to education that the situation incurs to the hundreds of thousands of children ...

"Almost half the world's internally displaced persons are in Africa. Conflict and violence accounted for 13.5 million displacements last year, while disasters such as flooding and drought caused 6 ...

“Almost all of my friends lost a family member. People in Derna believe more than 10,000 died in the flood,” says Dernawi ...

The worst floods in decades across a swath of West and Central Africa are deepening a record food-insecurity crisis in a ...