Nigeria: Evacuation due to flooding
An estimated two million people in northern Nigeria were evacuated due to floods, after the floodgates on two dams were opened.
Saturday, 25.09.2010.
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An estimated two million people in northern Nigeria were evacuated due to floods, after the floodgates on two dams were opened. The floodgates are normally opened every year during the rainy season. Nigeria: Evacuation due to flooding It is not known whether there are injured or missing in the flooding that hit several states in northern Nigeria. The flooding began when the gates on the Challawa and Tiga dams were opened. The dams are situated in Kano state, but about 5,000 villages in neighbouring Jigawa state have been affected, the British BBC reported. In a normal year, the water released from the dams flows into fields, irrigating crops of corn, rice and vegetables during the brief growing season. Jigawa and Kano are part of the Sahel region, a belt of semi-arid land south of the Sahara desert.
Nigeria: Evacuation due to flooding
It is not known whether there are injured or missing in the flooding that hit several states in northern Nigeria.The flooding began when the gates on the Challawa and Tiga dams were opened. The dams are situated in Kano state, but about 5,000 villages in neighbouring Jigawa state have been affected, the British BBC reported.
In a normal year, the water released from the dams flows into fields, irrigating crops of corn, rice and vegetables during the brief growing season.
Jigawa and Kano are part of the Sahel region, a belt of semi-arid land south of the Sahara desert.
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