Catholic leaders across West and Central Africa are calling for assistance following unprecedented and deadly floods that ...

Press Release - Heavy rains over the last few weeks have triggered massive flooding and devastation in West and Central Africa, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced from their destroyed ...

The European Union is set to send humanitarian aid to Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria which was struck by devastating floods after a dam broke on 11 September following unusually heavy rains.

Download logo Heavy rains over the last few weeks have triggered massive flooding and devastation in West and Central Africa, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced from their destroyed homes ...

Severe rains bucketed down on central Europe, Africa, Shanghai and the U.S. Carolinas this week, underscoring the extreme ways in which climate change is altering the weather.

Nigeria’s government warned of possible flooding in 11 states following the release of water from a dam in neighboring ...

Though different meteorological phenomena are behind the series of storms, climate scientists agree an underlying factor is ...

Nigeria's hydrological services agency has warned of potential flooding in 11 states after neighbouring Cameroon said it was ...

African states need to start working more closely with their neighbours, both in terms of purchasing disaster supplies as well as in responding to emergencies. Many African countries are very small, ...

Parts of the Sahara Desert have seen 600 percent of the average rainfall in the past 30 days, causing extreme floods.

Floods in Africa that are displacing millions of people from Guinea on the west coast to the Central African Republic more ...

National governments are on the frontlines of this crisis, with WFP’s support providing critical food and nutrition assistance to nearly one million people across the region. In Nigeria’s Maiduguri, ...