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FLOODING SITUATION OVERVIEW Flooding continues to disrupt people’s lives in 2025. The impact on livelihoods and infrastructure is severe. Some 984,000 people have been affected by floods across 10...

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In the next 5 days, heavy rainfall generated by deep convective clouds is expected in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Cameroon. - Heavy rainfall (100-150mm): is very likely in Senegal, nothern,...

Updates In the next 5 days, heavy rainfall generated by deep convective clouds is expected in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Cameroon. Extreme rainfall (accumulated over the next 5 days): not...

FLOODING SITUATION OVERVIEW In West and Central Africa, the effects of climate change encompass both slow-onset phenomena, such as rising temperatures, droughts and soil degradation, and sudden-onset...

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FLOODING SITUATION OVERVIEW The rainy season across West and Central Africa is coming to an end; however, the effects of flooding persist for many affected communities. The region continues to...

FLOODING SITUATION OVERVIEW The rainy season across most of West Africa is drawing to a close, but the effects of the floods across the region are still ongoing for many of those affected. The total...

FLOODING SITUATION OVERVIEW Although rainfall is decreasing in the West and Central Africa region, it continues to cause damage and to affect new populations. In total, 7.1 million people have been...

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FLOODING SITUATION OVERVIEW Torrential rains and severe flooding have affected approximately 6.9 million people in West and Central Africa so far in 2024. Out of 16 countries that have been hit by...

FLOODING SITUATION OVERVIEW Torrential rains and severe flooding have affected nearly 6.6 million people in West and Central Africa so far in 2024. This figure already exceeds last year’s total for...

FLOODING SITUATION OVERVIEW Torrential rains and severe flooding have affected more than 4.4 million people in West and Central Africa so far in 2024. This represents an increase of 2.1 million...

FLOODING SITUATION OVERVIEW Torrential rains and severe flooding have affected more than 2.30 million people in West and Central Africa in 2024. The most affected countries are Chad with 1 million...

FLOODING SITUATION OVERVIEW The forecasts for the 2024 season are corroborated to date and the damage is starting to emerge barely two months after the start of the 2024 rainy season in the region...

Just two months into the 2024 rainy season, torrential rains and severe flooding have affected 716,473 people in the CAR, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, DR Congo, Liberia, Niger and Togo.