Thousands displaced after heavy flooding in Burkina Faso
Some part of Accra was flooded during the rainy season
The 2009 West Africa floods are a natural disaster that began in June 2009 as a consequence of exceptionally heavy seasonal rainfall in large areas of West Africa.
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Several rivers, including the Pendjari, Niger, Volta and Senegal rivers, broke their banks, causing destruction of houses, bridges, roads and crops.[2] The floods are reported to have affected 940,000 people[1] across 12 countries, including Burkina Faso, Benin, Ghana,[3] Niger,[4] Senegal,[5][6] Guinea, and caused the deaths of at least 193 people.[7][8] In Burkina Faso, one of the most affected countries, 150,000 people fled their homes, mostly in the capital Ouagadougou where rainfall in one day was equal to 25% of normal annual rainfall for the whole country.[7][8][9]
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^ abFominyen, George (4 September 2009). "West Africa's seasonal floods in 2009". ReliefWeb. Archived from the original on 5 September 2009. Retrieved 6 September 2009.
^IRIN (4 September 2009). "BURKINA FASO-GHANA: One country's dam, another's flood". Archived from the original on 29 September 2009. Retrieved 5 September 2009.
^IRIN (3 September 2009). "NIGER: Desert flooding wipes out electricity, homes, livestock". Archived from the original on 29 September 2009. Retrieved 5 September 2009.
^Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (24 August 2009). "Green Flood Alert in Senegal". GDACS. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2009.
^IRIN (31 August 2009). "WEST AFRICA: Seasonal rains, seasonal misery". Archived from the original on 29 September 2009. Retrieved 5 September 2009.
^ ab"Floods across Western Sahel (as of 08 Sep 2009)". ReliefWeb. 8 September 2009. Retrieved 9 September 2009.
^ abBBC News (5 September 2009). "UN warns on West Africa floods". Archived from the original on 5 September 2009. Retrieved 5 September 2009.
^Schlein, Lisa (5 September 2009). "West Africa Hit by Devastating Floods". Voice of America. Archived from the original on 6 September 2009. Retrieved 5 September 2009.
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