According to an official toll released on Saturday, flooding brought on by torrential rain in Niger has killed 195 people and affected more than 322,000.
One of the deadliest rainy seasons in the history of the West African nation occurred this year.
According to statistics from the Civil Protection Service seen by AFP, as of October 21, 211 people had been reported injured while 59 people had drowned and 136 had died in collapsing homes.
More than 263,000 people in Niger, which is located in the dry Sahel, were reportedly affected by floods during the rainy season earlier this month, which claimed 192 lives.
The rains have damaged more than 30,000 homes, 83 classrooms, six health centres and 235 grain stores.
The worst-affected regions are Maradi and Zinder in the centre of the country, Dosso in the southwest and Tahoua in the west.
The rainy season, which starts in June and can last until October, regularly claims lives, but the toll has been particularly heavy this year.
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In 2021, 70 people were killed and 200,000 people were affected. The death toll in 2020 was 73.
In neighbouring Nigeria, more than 600 people have died since June in the deadliest floods in a decade.
“According to all our studies, we can link these rains to climate change,” head of the national meteorological agency Katiellou Gaptia Lawan told AFP.
The “rainfall is intense”, while runoff water can no longer make its way into the soil because it has been “degraded by human activity”, he explained.
AFP
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