(18 Sep 2024)
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Maiduguri – 18 September 2024
1. Various of aerial shots of flood
2. Various of internally displaced camp
3. Various of UN agency staff packaging meal for the displaced
4. Various of displaced people in camp
5. SOUNDBITE (Hausa) Yakaka Idris, displaced person:
"With our small children, we don’t know where to stay now. Government should be sympathetic to allow us to stay longer in the camp, because if we go back to our house now, we will not have a place to sleep with our children. And if we go to somebody’s house, we will not feel comfortable. Our government should be patient with us and not be tired of us.”
6. Aerial shot of farm settlement
7. Mid of internally displaced people
8. SOUNDBITE (English) David Stephenson, World Food Programme representative:
“It’s an absolute tragedy for this local people who had their homes wiped out due to flooding and were already affected by conflict in the region; Boko Haram related conflict. These are farmers who would rather be on their farms are now being hit by floods. So, what we saw today was continued challenges for people to live away from their homes.”
9. Internally displaced people next to vehicle
10. Various of aerials of flood
STORYLINE:
Severe floods on Wednesday continued to ravage northeastern Nigeria, impacting more than 400,000 people, according to the United Nations.
Aerials showed the extent of flooding which has displaced hundreds of thousands.
Nigeria’s government has also warned of possible flooding in 11 states following the release of water from a dam in neighboring Cameroon.
Floods in Borno state have forced people from their homes into displacement sites.
Earlier this month, flooding killed 30 people in the state after the collapse of a major dam.
About 15% of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, was under water.
More than a million people in northeastern Nigeria have been affected by the floods, with some areas seeing chest-high water levels, devastating people, crops, and livestock.
The flooding has worsened the humanitarian crisis in Nigeria, where armed violence especially in the troubled northern region has already displaced millions.
Millions of people already displaced by the conflict, many of whom live in camps, are particularly vulnerable to the flooding.
"It’s an absolute tragedy for this local people who had their homes wiped out,” said David Stephenson, World Food Programme representative.
Stephenson added that the flooding has presented yet another challenge for internally displaced people in the region, many who have already been made vulnerable by the violence in the region.
West Africa has experienced some of the heaviest flooding in decades this year, affecting more than 2 million people, three times more than last year.
In 2022, more than 600 people were impacted by flooding in Nigeria when water was released from the same Lagdo dam in Cameroon.
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