Many of the victims of the devastating flood that struck central Nigeria on May 29 are Almajiri pupils, the boys sent to ...

Fatal floods have wreaked havoc across Nigeria, India and Bangladesh this week as Romania is dealing with the aftermath of ...

Flooding in Nigeria's Niger State this week has killed 151 people and forced several thousand from their homes, an emergency ...

Better drainage and early warning would help curb losses from a future flood but Nigeria's adaptation plan hasn't been ...

The death toll from devastating flooding in a market town in Nigeria's north-central state of Niger rose to at least 200 on ...

Thousands of people have been left homeless and hungry after devastating floods hit central Nigeria. Survivors say help is not coming fast enough. Authorities in Nigeria say at least 200 people ...

The floods that hit Mokwa, in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state, are the worst in living memory, with the death toll topping 150 and continuing to climb and hundreds feared missing.

Emergency officials said the flood built rapidly in just five hours ... concerns about the growing impact of climate change on Nigeria’s vulnerable regions.

It was the first major rainfall in Mokwa and its environ. Before the devastating downpour, the sky was enveloped in total darkness signifying an inevitable rainstorm. And, by the time the hailstorm ...

Mokwa, Niger State, after Thursday's pre-dawn flood. Rescue halted as Nigeria faces one of its deadliest floods in recent history.

Both women, married to the same man, had been spending their nights there since last week when the worst flood in living memory wiped out swathes of the town -- sweeping away their home ...

Adamu Yusuf was preparing to go to the Mokwa market Thursday morning when he heard his neighbour shouting: floodwaters were sweeping through the Nigerian town. Water had been building up for days ...