2010 West African floods

The 2010 West African floods were a devastating series of regional floods caused by unusually heavy seasonal rainfall. Quotes A number of people are missing and we have recorded significant damage, including destroyed homes. https://reliefweb.int/disaster/fl-2010-000118-gha said Fiacre Kili, director of the Ivorian Office of Civil Protection, on 25 June, 2010. Many crops and vegetables that would have provided crucial food to hungry families have been destroyed by floods.People who were praying for rains for their crops to grow have now lost everything. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2010/8/29/thousands-left-homeless-in-niger Raphael Sindaye, Oxfam’s deputy regional director in west Africa, said in a statement. Before the rains, people lacked food, now any small reserves of grain they had have been washed away by the water. Nothing remains. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2010/8/29/thousands-left-homeless-in-niger Ibrahim Mahaman, head of a flood-hit village told Oxfam External links Category:2010s floods Category:Disasters in Africa