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2020 African Sahel floods
Date	August-September 2020
Location	Niger Burkina Faso Senegal Ghana Nigeria Tunisia Mali

The 2020 African Sahel floods were extreme floods that struck numerous West, East, and Central African countries in August and September 2020 due to extreme rainfall. Over 760,000 people in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Congo Republic, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, and Tunisia were affected and hundreds killed.

Effect

The flood caused so many damages to lives, and properties and even lives were lost. thousands of people have been affected by flooding.Dozens of homes have been swept away by flash floods.

References

Celestial, Julie (September 12, 2020). "Exceptional rainfall and record floods hit African Sahel". The Watchers.
"Senegal – State of Emergency After Deadly Floods". Floodlist. 7 September 2020.

v t e 2020 floods
Africa	East Africa African Sahel Congo River Sudan
Asia	South Asia Afghanistan China India Assam Hyderabad Kerala Vidarbha Indonesia Jakarta Japan Kyushu Korea Nepal Vietnam Central Vietnam Yemen
Europe	Storm Dennis Storm Gloria Croatia Zagreb United Kingdom
North America	United States Pacific Northwest Southeast Kentucky
South America	Brazil
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