Parts of the Sahara Desert have seen 600 percent of the average rainfall in the past 30 days, causing extreme floods.

Research reveals flooding is a greater threat than drought in deserts, with desertification and erosion worsening risks ...

New research suggests that soil erosion is making floods more deadly in desert areas and warns against the rising risks to ...

Increasingly warmer weather due to climate change is causing more extreme rainfall in some areas of the globe.

Flooding caused by the rain has devastated cities and towns across west and central Africa in recent days ... but that was before the floods hit Maiduguri, which has added at least 30 people ...

Insurance is a pivotal instrument to reduce flood risk but the extent to which insurers can help the society depends very much on how flood insurance coverage is arranged and this varies from ...

In the last two weeks of August, more than 1.5 million people were displaced across 12 countries in West and Central Africa due to ... said that even before the floods, residents in Borno were ...

At least 170 people have died and more than 200,000 others are displaced following weeks of flooding in Africa’s most populous ... on the northern side before moving to the central and the ...