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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00:00We have to find a way to get out of here.
00:02We don't know if we can get out of here.
00:04We don't know if we can get out of here.
00:06We don't know if we can get out of here.
00:08We don't know if we can get out of here.
00:10We don't know if we can get out of here.
00:12We don't know if we can get out of here.
00:14We don't know if we can get out of here.
00:16We don't know if we can get out of here.
00:18We don't know if we can get out of here.
00:20We don't know if we can get out of here.
00:22We don't know if we can get out of here.
00:24We don't know if we can get out of here.
00:26We don't know if we can get out of here.
00:28Almost the whole of our shops are affected at the Monday Marches.
00:35The whole of our shops near El Keremi
00:37run about
00:39down to Posthoffice
00:41is already affected by the water.
00:55We are here at the reflective of President Bula
00:57to commiserate with the government and people of Borno State, most especially His Excellency
01:06the Governor and Your Eminence the Father of the State, over the very catastrophic flooding
01:16incident this morning that devastated a greater chunk of Maiduguri metropolis.