In west and central Africa, recent heavy rains and flooding show climate change is another thumb on a scale already weighed down by war and disease. New research suggests extreme weather events in ...

Every rainy season for the past 12 years, floods have swept through 67-year-old Idris Egbunu's house in central Nigeria. The ...

“With every fraction of a degree of warming, the risk of extreme ... next month. Floods killed about 1,500 people and displaced more than one million in West and Central Africa this year ...

Torrential rains and severe flooding have affected around 6.9 million people in West and Central Africa so far in 2024 ... according to a recent report by the World Meteorological Organisation.