"We are deeply devastated by the flood," Auxiliary Bishop John Bakeni of Maiduguri said in a statement sent to OSV News Sept.

Floods have displaced 300,000 people and damaged thousands of buildings, affecting one million people in Maiduguri.

Flood warnings had been ringing out across Nigeria’s north-east for weeks. Schools in Maiduguri were closed for a fortnight ...

Torrential rains have led to disastrous floods across Central and West Africa, affecting over 4 million people. In Maiduguri, ...

Catholic leaders across West and Central Africa are calling for assistance following unprecedented and deadly floods that ...

The situation in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in north-eastern Nigeria, which was hit by the floods on September 10 ...

Borno state Governor Babagana Zulum described the extent of the damage as "beyond human imagination". This is the first time ...

Nigerian authorities say 281 inmates escaped after devastating floods brought down a prison’s walls in the country’s ...

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and its humanitarian partners are working around the clock to provide life-saving relief to the ...

Maiduguri is the capital of Borno state which, early last week, suffered its worst floods in decades after a dam overflowed ...

The aftermath of flooding in Nigeria's northeast is raising alarming humanitarian concerns, with thousands facing ...

The collapse of the Alau Dam in northern Nigeria on Tuesday, September 10 has exacerbated the ongoing floods that have been ... located 20 kilometers south of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno ...