Desperate flight, then misery in a camp for Nigerians displaced by floods


  • World
  • Tuesday, 25 Oct 2022

FILE PHOTO: People are seen taking shelter at the Oxbow lake area in Yenagoa Nigeria, October 18, 2022. REUTERS/Tife Owolabi/File Photo

OGBOGU, Nigeria (Reuters) - After watching his four young children gobble up a meagre portion of beans straight from the saucepan, Nigerian farmer Gideon George will sleep on an empty stomach in the makeshift camp where the family ended up after their home was flooded.

George said the children were so hungry he did not have the heart to keep any for himself, and there was nothing else to eat that evening in the camp, a secondary school building in Rivers State, one of 32 Nigerian states hit by catastrophic floods.

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