16 out of 21 local government areas were affected by the flood taking the lives of about 29 people with 321,000 houses destroyed and 858,000 farmlands washed away.
The Niger Republic junta has ordered the country’s Arm Forces to return to the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) after pulling out a year ago in the aftermath of toppling democracy in July 2023, abandoning the cooperation, following a threat to invade the country by the President Bola Tinubu-led Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).