Cameroon has several dams on the Benue River, which flows downstream to Nigeria.
Nigeria’s hydrological services agency has warned of potential flooding in 11 states after neighbouring Cameroon said it was starting to release water from one of its largest dams following recent heavy rainfall in West and Central Africa.
The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency said it had been notified by authorities in Cameroon on Tuesday that they had started controlled water releases from Lagdo dam.A spokesperson for Cameroon’s utility ENEO, which manages the dam, told Reuters there was a possibility that the dam could be flooded, but the reservoirs had not been opened on Wednesday morning.
But 11 states, including Benue, Nasarawa and Kogi in the food producing central belt region and southern oil producing states of Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers were at risk, said NIHSA. In 2022, Nigeria lost more than 600 people and farmlands to the worst flooding in a decade following heavy rain and after Cameroon released water from Lagdo dam.
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