According to Save the Children, the climate crisis is causing extreme weather events and their aftereffects to become more common and severe, disproportionately affecting Africa.
According to worldwide organization Save the Children, severe flooding in West Africa has caused over 950,000 people to be relocated and has interfered with children’s schooling at the beginning of the school year.
“Hundreds of thousands of children now displaced from their homes are facing disease, hunger from crop destruction, and disruption to their education, as schools have become crowded with fleeing families or damaged in the floods,” the NGO warned on Friday.
950,000 people have been displaced, according to Save the Children; 649,184 are in Niger, 225,000 are in Nigeria, and 73,778 are in Mali.
According to the Niger government, since the rainy season began in June, over 700,000 people have been rendered homeless and 273 people have died.
According to Save the Children, neighboring Nigeria has recorded 200 fatalities as a result of rising waters in 29 of its 36 states, most of which are in the north, from the River Niger and its main Benue tributary.
Children make about half of those displaced
“According to Nigerian government data, over 115,265 hectares of farmland have also been damaged, in a country with already high rates of food insecurity,” the NGO claimed.
As to the agency, a quarter of all Nigerian youngsters “faced hunger in June-August this year – a 25 percent increase on the same period last year.”
According to the NGO, children make up more than half of those displaced in Mali, whose government has declared a state of national calamity.
According to Save the Children, the climate crisis is causing extreme weather events and their aftereffects to become more common and severe, disproportionately affecting Africa.
“Vishna Shah-Little, regional advocacy, media, and communications director for the agency in Western and Central Africa, stated that these nations are already severely damaged by conflict and insecurity, making it even more difficult to respond.
