In west and central Africa, some 3.4 million people need help after destructive flooding, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday.
The alert comes amid the worst floods in a decade, which have swept across Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali and Cameroon.
"The climate crisis is happening now - destroying livelihoods, disrupting food security, aggravating conflicts over scarce resources and driving displacement." In Central Sahel countries - Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso - above-average rains and flooding have killed hundreds, displaced thousands, and decimated over one million hectares of cropland.
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