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More than a hundred people have been killed in Nigeria, after torrential rain submerged a market town in the north of the country. The military has been called in to help respond to what officials are calling ‘unprecedented’ flooding. Nigeria and West Africa in general are accustomed to seasonal downpours, but scientists say climate change is fueling more extreme weather.
00:00 Floods leave 100 dead with death toll expected to rise
02:17 DW’s Olisa Chukwumah reports from Lagos
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Oh its "climate change" that made countries with fast rising populations live on man made flood plains after building damns and such! This more about bad government planning and urban development instead of using "climate change" as a scapegoat for everything!
What is Germany doing to help?
The government expected flood, flood relief funds was already approved before the raining season even started.
Insteaded of preventing flood they're waiting for it to happen
Send the Hamas Funded UN and UNRWA to Nigeria.
The loss of lives and destruction of property does not include the ecological destruction extreme weather is inflicting on these regions. That ecological destruction diminishes the hydrological management system the natural world embodies. Ecological destruction, driven by climate change, diminishes resilience against extreme weather, as well as a destruction of the regions fertility. People are impoverished by ecological disasters like this because the land they depend on is being washed away, scoured away to barren dirt. Climate reporting is missing this reality. Every extreme weather event be a drought, wildfire or floods. A sail land was such increasing ferocity that the capacity to recover is overwhelmed, and then the capacity to recover is destroyed.. as the world’s ecological systems unravel through mass extinction by massive storms that scour living planet from the face of the Earth we are all made worse off and more vulnerable to future ex extremity.
From Turkey condolence to people of Nigeria. 😢 God bless you.
Horrible situation, all this could be prevented if the leaders and the people know how to put things in order.
Where is the city disaster management. ?
Glad to be south African.
This state is heavily impacted by deforestation, which must surely have played some part in this tragedy.
NIGERIA IS A COLONIAL ARRANGEMENT OF 100 YEARS OF WHICH ENDED IN 2O14.
my condolence to the families
Unfortunately the Nigeria government and the ruling class don’t care. The poor are left to fend for themselves while the government is no where to be found
Nigeria and Haiti : A caution tale of how not to manage a population and a territory.
Unbelievable ..this is Trump fault
Dear nigerian brothers, it is very unfortunate that you are being afflicted by the flood. We indians are with you in this difficult period. Please make upi relief fund for it. We are eager to help you with upi transactions. Gpay, phonepay etc.
RIP
Macron will address his people
Floods are done now.ather realms tent shelter is removed while water floods are sinking down.
Keep safe.
Keep safe.
What improvements can be made for the beautiful people there?
Reminds me of Hurricane Harvey, but much worse.
😢RIP
This isn't climate change, but an infrequent, uninterrupted, back-to-back series of four Extreme Lunar Periapsis, all culminating in the Northern Hemisphere, the likes of which have not been seen since the 1960's, has just completed. The Lunar Periapsis occurs every 28 days on average, and usually causes no problems. The next cycle of Extreme Lunar Periapsis will not occur again before November. Nigeria is not unique in this regard, as wide spread flooding has occurred over much of the globe during this period, from NSW Australia, to China, India, Thailand, Myanmar, the USA, and now Nigeria being the worst hit so far.
Omg! God help us. So sad indeed
My heart goes out to my country men.
My condolences and prayers for the families affected. 🙏🙏🙏
PRAYERS. FROM. U.S.A. ❤❤❤AND. PRAYERS🎉🎉❤❤
West, please show this interest you seem to have with Burkina Faso and their leader and share some of those assassination attempts with Tinubu. He is destroying this country. Of course he did not cause the flood, but maybe if he didn't spend so much of his time in the parlor of Macron, he would have been working on better roads and resiliency among many others. I am shocked he even commented, he is usually busy tweeting on disasters in the US and sending them his condolences. Please, share those assassination attempts with Tinubu, that would help us quite a bit.
Repent.
The Lord Jesus is judging the world for sin. Repent and be baptized for the remission of your sins. Put down your idol worship and worship the true and living God. Remember Noah's ark, He was judging them too.
It's reckless journalism to hastily attribute this disaster to climate change when it played no role. The real culprit is the unregulated release of water from Kanji Dam, and accountability is necessary for those who permitted it. Furthermore, the supposed "torrential rain" was neither extreme nor ongoing at the time of the flooding.
God save Nigeria and her people, amen
Prayers are going up for the victims and families of this flooding. Before it’s all said and done, the ones at the bottom will be at the top and the ones at the top will be at the bottom.