{"id":2541,"date":"2024-09-13T08:21:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T08:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2024-09-13T08:21:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T08:21:32","slug":"borno-state-floods-affect-over-one-million-people-after-dam-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2024\/09\/13\/borno-state-floods-affect-over-one-million-people-after-dam-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Borno State Floods Affect Over One Million People After Dam Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"root\">\n<div class=\"css-15dx29c\">\n<div class=\"container container--grid container--article container--white container--vertical-padding\">\n<div class=\"container__inner\">\n<div class=\"l-col l-col--8\"><main id=\"main-content-area\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Main content area\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg--all-content css-ibbk12\" aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>The collapse of the Alau dam in Borno has caused some of the state\u2019s worst flooding since the same dam collapsed 30 years ago in the northeast causing severe flooding, destroying thousands of homes and over one million people affected, deadly reptiles into communities\u00a0worsening a dire humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The flooding in Borno State has affected a million people, the state governor said on Wednesday, straining resources as authorities scramble to rescue residents and place them in temporary shelters.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rains had caused a dam to overflow on Tuesday, decimating a state-owned zoo and washing crocodiles and snakes into flooded communities.<\/p>\n<p>Maiduguri the capital of Boron state has a \u201cstream of people\u201d who are currently making their way out of areas covered by the floodwaters.<\/p>\n<p>civilians have been searching in the water with limited diving equipment to save as many people as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen dead bodies arriving,\u201d\u00a0 adding that a successful rescue operation saw baby twins saved from the floodwaters and moved to safety.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials said it was the worst flooding in the state in two decades, but authorities have yet to announce deaths.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3173066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3173066\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-3173066\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/AP24254559676389-1726071628.jpg?w=770&amp;resize=770%2C513&amp;quality=80\" alt=\"Nigeria\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3173066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk through floodwaters following a dam collapse in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Tuesday, September 10, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vice President Kashim Shettima visited people displaced by the floods on Tuesday evening and promised to provide them with food, shelter and medicine. A day later, Idris said that very few supplies had reached those people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nigeria floods affect one million people after dam collapse\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hHJGi1aHzJ4?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Borno State governor Babagana Zulum visited Bakassi camp on Wednesday and told reporters that authorities were assessing the damage and a quarter of the state capital, Maiduguri, had been flooded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see how water completely flooded the area, sewerages were completely flooded, that means waterborne diseases would be transmitted,\u201d Zulum told reporters while meeting affected residents.<\/p>\n<p>The dam collapse is compounding a humanitarian crisis in Borno over the past decade due to a rebellion started by the Boko Haram armed group. The rebellion, which has spilt across borders around Lake Chad, has killed more than 35,000 people and displaced 2.6 million others in the country\u2019s north-east region.<\/p>\n<p>Bakassi camp used to house tens of thousands of people who were displaced by the Boko Haram rebellion. The camp had been closed last year.<\/p>\n<p>The National Emergency Management Agency said that floods in Nigeria have killed 229 people since the start of the year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The collapse of the Alau dam in Borno has caused some of the state\u2019s worst flooding since the same dam collapsed 30 years ago in the northeast causing severe flooding, destroying thousands of homes&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2544,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions\/2544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}