Heavy rains in Borno state, Northeast Nigeria have led to the worst flooding in 30 years, affecting at least 300,000 people and leaving hundreds of thousands of children without shelter, clean water, food, healthcare and education, at heightened risk of water-and vector-borne diseases.
Children and families are still trapped in their houses and efforts are being made to rescue them. Half of the town has been submerged and the roads are not passable.
Two main hospitals are flooded, and stabilization centers have been forced to suspend operations, just as the immense damage to water and sanitation services is driving up the risk of cholera and other water- and vector-borne diseases.
Schools have been suspended for two weeks – just as children were going back into learning after the holiday.
Source: APO
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