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Floods in Africa have led to large losses of life over many decades. [1] In recent years, the effects of floods have been exacerbated by climate change. [2] By year
In Somalia, hundreds of homes were damaged and there were 20 deaths (including a mother and her two children), [41] two injuries and 8,000 people were affected due to floods in Bardhere District on March 24. [42] Flooding in May killed an additional 22 people and over 460,000 people were affected. [36]
In 2024, heavy rainfall impacted several countries across West and Central Africa, including Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Mali, Guinea, Cameroon and Ghana. At least 1,500 were killed and more than a million were displaced. [1] The rainy season in West Africa lasts from June to September, with June alone producing prolonged deadly and damaging floods. [2]
Meanwhile, in Kenya 35 people have died since mid-March in flooding events that have affected more than 100,000 people, according to the U.N., which cites Red Cross figures in the most recent update.
A tropical disturbance moved across the western Caribbean on Friday, knocking out power to thousands in Jamaica and causing two deaths in Haiti as it unleashed landslides and floods before ...
Frequent heavy rains causing damage and casualties between March and May are common in East Africa – in May 2020 around 80 people were killed by floods in Rwanda. Floods and droughts have increased in Rwanda over a 30-year period. [4] Rwanda's weather authority attributes the unusual rainfall patterns to climate change. [5]
The 2024 South Sudan floods refer to catastrophic flooding across the African nation of South Sudan, resulting in "over 735,000 people across 38 of South Sudan’s 78 counties and the Abyei Administrative Area" being directly impacted, and 65,000 people being displaced, of which 41,000 were displaced from Warrap.
These conditions have a bearing on energy production and consumption. The recent drought in many African countries, which has been linked to climate change, adversely affected both energy security and economic growth across the continent. Africa will be one of the regions most impacted by the adverse effects of climate change. [29]