Every passing year, the effects of climate change and what it means for people’s actual lives, their homes, their ability to farm and eat, send their kids to school, to access basic health care among others increase in scope.

More than the heatwaves and drought, tsunamis, cyclones and floods have the most devasting impacts.
Across West and Central Africa, the 2024 floods are already causing havoc.

Just two months into the 2024 rainy season in West and Central Africa, torrential rains and severe flooding have affected 716,473 people in the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Mali and Togo.

In addition, at least nearly hundred people are reported to have lost their lives due to drowning and 699 others have been injured.
Abdullahi Hassan has more details in this edition of Enviroscope.