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Floods Across Africa's Sahel: Natural Hazards

eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/17000/17213/Nigeria_TMO_2006247_lrg.jpg September 4, 2006 (3.34 MB) Unusually heavy rains fell during West Africa's rainy season in 2006, bringing devastating floods to many countries. Nearly 26,000 were left homeless in Niger and Burkina Faso, the most severely affected countries, reported the www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6TJ4NS?OpenDocument&rc=1&emid=FL-2006-000133-NE United Nations News Service. The floods extended south of Niger into Nigeria. On September 18, 2006, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ( modis.gsfc.nasa.g…