People gather around a rice milling machine beside the Wuruku rice mill market after a flood displaced millers from the market in Makurdi, Nigeria, October 1, 2022. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde
MAKURDI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Victoria Okonkwo sits in a canoe as neighbours paddle her away from her house in Nigeria's food basket, Benue state, which is now under water – along with more than 100,000 hectares (247,100 acres) of farmland.
"It was last week that it started, so I left thinking that the water will not be this much," Okonkwo, 45, told Reuters. "Now I am displaced with my children."
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