Nigeria floods: Dam overflow creates new crisis for insurgency-hit region

  • 3 days ago
Floodwaters from an overflowing dam leave homes, schools and businesses submerged in parts of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in northeast Nigeria. An epicentre of more than a decade-long jihadist insurgency, the city is now dealing with what the United Nations refugee agency in Nigeria (UNHCR) is describing as the worst flooding in 30 years.

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