Floods in West Africa displace nearly 1 million people

Recent heavy rains and floods across Mali, Nigeria and Niger have forced nearly 950,000 people from their homes.

NGO Save the children alerted Friday (Sep. 06) about the risk of disease, hunger from crop destruction, and disruption to education that the situation incurs to the hundreds of thousands of children now displaced.

While this is normally the rainiest time of the year in West Africa, this year’s rains have been more severe than…