Climate change-worsened floods wreak havoc in Africa
The Peninsula
Lokoja, Nigeria: Every rainy season for the past 12 years, floods have swept through 67 year old Idris Egbunu s house in central Nigeria. It is alw...
Lokoja, Nigeria: Every rainy season for the past 12 years, floods have swept through 67-year-old Idris Egbunu's house in central Nigeria.
It is always the same story -- the Niger River bursts its banks and the waters claim his home for weeks on end, until he can return and take stock of the damage.
The house then needs cleaning, repairs, fumigation and repainting, until the next rainy season.
Flooding is almost inevitable around Lokoja in Nigeria's Kogi state, where Africa's third-longest river meets its main tributary, the Benue.
But across vast areas of Africa, climate change has thrown weather patterns into disarray and made flooding much more severe, especially this year.
