Lokoja, Nigeria, Oct 28, 2024 (AFP) - Climate change-worsened floods wreak havoc in Africa

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2024-10-28

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, wh......

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