The United Nations said Tuesday that 377 people had died in flooding in central and west Africa, with nearly 1.5 million people affected since the start of the rainy season in June.
"2010 has seen the largest number of people affected and dying from flooding", the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a news bulletin received by AFP in Dakar.
The highest toll was in Nigeria with 118, followed by Ghana (52), Sudan (50), Benin (43), Chad (24), Mauritania (21), Burkina Faso (16), Cameroon (13), Gambia (12), with other countries reporting less than 10 dead.
Most people were affected in Benin (360,000), followed by Nigeria (300,000), Niger (226,611), Chad (150,000), Burkina Faso (105,481), Sudan (74,970) and Mauritania (50,815).
Other countries had less than 50,000 people suffering from the floods.
Last year floods killed 195 people in west Africa and affected 823,291 others.
Yes its getting better and better, every year. I offer a bet that next year floods will kill more than 377. Any takers? Anyways, floods like these had been happening in the area since, well, before the apes learned to walk, so I do not get all this crying and whining. You live in a flooding zone-- you get flooded. End of story.
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