After the Great Flood of 1927, there was less reason than ... Delta planters' fortunes depended on African American labor, and they were determined to keep tenants on their plantations.

Blues artists from Bessie Smith to Barbecue Bob recorded over 30 songs related to the Great Flood ... the flood, they understood the hardships the Delta's predominantly African American ...

Climate Change Worsened Rains in Flood-Hit African Regions, Scientists Say (Reuters) - Devastating rains that triggered deadly floods in Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan in recent months ...

Monsoon Havoc Exposes West and Central Africa's Rising Flood Risks By Mahamat Ramadane and Alessandra Prentice N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Father-of-seven Dah Toubada Kadapia stood on a stack of ...

Neither its leaders, when they choose to be responsible, nor its people, wish to be pawns on the boards of geopolitical ...

This year more than ever, the UN climate conference is about how much support developing countries can expect to receive to ...

The Grammy noms had plenty of surprises, with Andre 3000's flute album getting an album of the year nod and Ariana Grande ...

This year's floods killed around 1,500 people and displaced over 1 million more in West and Central Africa, according to the U.N. aid agency OCHA. The rainfall also overwhelmed dams in Nigeria and ...

Africa's economic losses linked to floods have been rising. A report by the World Meteorological Organization, published in 2021, said they jumped to $12.5 billion in 2010-19, more than double the ...