While The World Focuses On Irma, Floods Have Killed Over 1000 People In Nigeria, Niger & Sierra Leone - .indy100.com
In the state of Benue in Nigeria, more than 110,000 people have been displaced by flooding in 2017's Summer months, according to the state's emergency services, indy100.com reports.
Thousands of people there have also had their lives devastated by flooding, and many have no home to return to when their temporary shelter closes.
Hurricane Irma, which followed Harvey, began destroying areas of the Caribbean on Wednesday.
Photos showing the severity of the floods in Texas, and of the monsoons displacing millions of people from their homes in South East Asia were shared online.
In Africa, during the month of August, an estimated 1,240 people were killed by intense rains and mudslides.
This point is being made not so as to undermine any people's suffering, but to provide a level of attention afforded to similar catastrophes that happen in other areas of the world.
In Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, mudslides in August brought on by intense rain killed over 1,000 in one week. Government officials put that figure at 400, but on the ground aid workers said there were a further 600 missing.
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