“But when the water came, it swept it all away, It reached our knees, then our stomachs and our chests. That was when the children started drowning. Luckily, some men helped in rescuing us”, Fati Laminu, a trapped resident told Al Jazeera.
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Floods have displaced 300,000 people and damaged thousands of buildings, affecting one million people in #Maiduguri.
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Heavy rainfall in recent weeks had caused the Alau Dam, located just a few kilometres outside Maiduguri, to collapse for a third time since 1994. Northeast #Nigeria normally receives much less rain than other parts during the annual July to September rainy season.
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However, unusually high levels of rainfall across West and Central Africa, which some experts link to climate change, have affected more than four million people, from #Liberia to #Chad.
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