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    People affected by floods are escorted through flood water on a military boat in Maiduguri on September 12, 2024. Severe flooding in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri has claimed at least 30 lives and forced 400,000 people from their homes, officials said on September 11, 2024.
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    The flood in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno, is described as the worst in Northeast Nigeria in 30 years.

    Residents prepare breakfast outside their destroyed house in the aftermath of a tornado and extreme weather at an informal settlement in Tongaat, north of Durban on June 04, 2024.
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    04 June 2024

    South African Weather Service Issues Alerts as Severe Conditions Hit Parts of the Country

    The weather warnings in South Africa follow the deaths of about a dozen people and the destruction of properties that occurred after damaging winds, heavy rainfall, and at least two tornadoes hit the coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal.

    Residents pause while tryings to clear the rubble of a house after the passage of cyclone Batsirai, in the Tanambao district on February 8, 2022 in Mananjary, Madagascar.
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    28 March 2024

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    The island nation of Madagascar is dealing with a fresh bout of an all too familiar climate-induced crisis.

    An aerial view of submerged area in Beledweyne, Somalia on May 17, 2023. 90 percent of the city of Beledwayne was submerged due to flooding after heavy rains in Somalia.
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    09 November 2023

    Unprecedented Flooding Ravages Somalia, Displacing Hundreds of Thousands

    Somalia faces a dual crisis of extreme rainfall and the aftermath of a severe drought, as flash flooding submerges up to 90 percent of Beledwayne.

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