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Monsoon havoc exposes West and Central Africa’s rising flood risks

Summary by WTVB

By Mahamat Ramadane and Alessandra Prentice N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Father-of-seven Dah Toubada Kadapia stood on a stack of homemade sandbags in his backyard in Chad’s capital N’Djamena, surrounded by floodwaters that locals say have risen higher than past years, causing more damage than ever. Over the last few months, heavy rains have floodedevery one of Chad’s 23 provinces, burst a dam in northern Nigeria, damaged ancient buildings in Niger’…

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