Parts of Central and West Africa have seen heavy flooding over an unusually intense rainy season, unleashing a humanitarian crisis in which hundreds have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced.
The summer of 2024 was the hottest ever recorded on Earth and record after record has tumbled over the past year.
Heat waves, droughts and deadly flooding have followed in their wake, provoked by unrelentless global warming.
Here is a round-up of the impact of the flooding:
- Weeks of torrential rains in Chad have left 341 people dead and some 1.5 million affected since July
- In Niger, heavy rains since June have killed 273 and affected more than 700,000, authorities said early this month.
- In Nigeria, at least 200 people have been killed and more than 225,000 displaced, many of whom were already uprooted by conflicts and climate change.
- In Sudan and South Sudan, floods have left dozens dead and uprooted 1.2 million people.