Officials in Niger said Wednesday that at least 47 people have been killed and over 56,000 others displaced by flooding triggered by recent heavy rains.<\/p>\n
The General Directorate of Civil Protection said the floods have affected 7,754 households in 339\u00a0neighbourhoods\u00a0and villages.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome 30 people died after their houses collapsed while 17 drowned. In addition, the floods injured 70 people,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n
In addition to homes and infrastructure destroyed, officials said close to 300 heads of cattle have died.<\/p>\n
The national committee in charge of flood prevention said it has begun distributing food aid to nearly 4,000 families.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the government has set aside $21.3 million to help those affected by the flooding.<\/p>\n
With the impact of climate change increasing globally, flooding has become one of the most frequent and destructive natural disasters.<\/p>\n
Africa faces a disproportionate burden from climate change, experiencing deadly heatwaves, heavy rains, floods, tropical cyclones, and prolonged droughts.<\/p>\n
In 2024, heavy rains impacted nearly 1.5 million Nigeriens in the country’s eight regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials in Niger said Wednesday that at least 47 people have been killed and over 56,000 others displaced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-83699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}