1.5 million children at risk due to flooding in Nigeria | panorama
In West African Nigeria, more than 1.5 million children are at risk of disease, starvation and drowning due to flooding caused by climate change.
In total, more than 2.5 million people are engaged in humanitarian aid, as the UN Children’s Fund is involved on Friday. Unicef spoke of the worst flooding in ten years.
The floods promote among other diseases such as cholera. The World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva warned in mid-October that cholera outbreaks in numerous countries could get out of control due to a lack of vaccines. She recommended temporarily giving only one dose instead of two.
flooding due to climate change
According to UNICEF’s climate risk index, Nigeria ranks second out of 163 and has an “extremely high risk” of being affected by the consequences of climate change. Nigeria is currently not the only country to be safe from heavy rain and flooding: in Chad, Sudan and South Sudan, entire parts of the country are also under water, and parts of the population are cut off from food and drinking water.
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