About 2m people, or about half the population of Nigeria's Jigawa state, have been displaced after authorities had to open flood gates on two rivers.
‘We have about two million people affected,’ Umar Kyari spokesman of Jigawa state said. Jigawa has a population of about 4.3 million people.
He said the flooding was caused after authorities opened flood gates of the Challawa and Tiga dams in neighbouring Kano state.
‘When the rains became too much they realised the water was too much and opened the dams,’ he said.
About 90,000 hectares (222,400 acres) of farmland have been washed away with food and livestock estimated at 4.5bn naira (€22m) destroyed.
