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Floods Across Africa's Sahel: Natural Hazards

eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/17000/17217/Nigeria_TMO_2006270_lrg.jpg September 27, 2006 (1.08 MB) Wet-season rains triggered floods across Africa's Sahel in August and September 2006. On September 30, a downpour overwhelmed a dam in northwest Nigeria, causing the floods seen in the top image. The deluge of water flowing from the burst dam flooded farmland and villages around the regional capital, Gusau. According to a www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/LZEG-6U7PN8?OpenDocument United Nations report, the floods washed away 500 houses. As of October 2, more than 98 people were m…

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Source	Internet Archive
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
Date	2006-10-02
Type	image
Details	ia subject
Found at	https://archive.org/details/Nigeria_TMO_2006275
Archived copy	Look it up in the Wayback Machine
Record ID	`internet-archive:Nigeria_TMO_2006275`

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Floods Across Africa's Sahel: Natural Hazards. Internet Archive, 2006. Vero Archive, record internet-archive:Nigeria_TMO_2006275.