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Heavy rain and rising waters continue to take a deadly toll in countries including Nigeria, Thailand and Vietnam

Activists say victims of security agencies are yet to receive compensation or justice and police brutality is ongoing.

Nigeria experienced its worst flooding in a decade this October, resulting in the deaths of at least 600 people. With homes and public buildings inundated, more than a million people have been displaced. According to our Observer, who has been helping impacted communities, the floods have had wide-ranging effects –…

Millions of people affected by Boko Haram’s armed campaign are in need of urgent humanitarian aid.

Nnamdi Nwaogu, a 44-year-old IT worker, has packed his bags. In Lagos, Nigeria's frenetic commercial capital, galloping inflation and a plunging naira have pummeled his salary.

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At least 603 people have lost their lives in floods this year and more than 1.3 million displaced, authorities say.

In 2009 a once quiet local Salafi group called Boko Haram became increasingly violent in north-east Nigeria and border communities of Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Its quest to forbid western education in the heavily Islamic region has led to the kidnapping of many school children, the slaughter of an estimated…

Officials in Nigeria say the death toll from this year's flooding has now risen to 603