‘Water Is Coming.’ Floods Devastate West and Central Africa
WEB4 days ago · Flooding caused by the rain has devastated cities and towns across west and central Africa in recent days, leaving more than 1,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed. Up to ...
Western Africa | Countries, History, Map, Population, & Facts
WEB2 days ago · western Africa, region of the western African continent comprising the countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
The World Bank in Western and Central Africa
WEBApr 8, 2024 · Western and Central Africa (AFW) is a vast region with diverse cultures, beliefs, languages, and lifestyles. Stretching from the most western point of Africa, across the equator, and partly along the Atlantic Ocean till the Republic of Congo in the South, it encompasses 22 countries that spread across semi-arid areas in the Sahel, large coastal ...
'Water is flooding everywhere' as torrential rains sweep through West …
WEB3 hours ago · As torrential rains sweep through Central and West Africa, floods have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands across the region ABUJA, Nigeria -- Houses swept away to ...
Central Africa | History, Countries, Climate, & Facts | Britannica
WEB4 days ago · Central Africa, region of Africa that straddles the Equator and is drained largely by the Congo River system. It comprises, according to common definitions, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, and …
West Africa - Wikipedia
WEBWest Africa, broadly defined to include the western portion of the Maghreb (Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia), occupies an area in excess of 6,140,000 km 2, or approximately one-fifth of Africa. The vast majority of this land is plains lying less than 300 meters above sea level, though isolated high points exist in numerous states ...
Africa - Sahel, Sahara, Coast | Britannica
WEB1 day ago · West-central Africa may be considered as an eastern extension of western Africa: in the north are the savannas of Chad, the Central African Republic, Sudan, and South Sudan, stretching to the Nile River, and in the south is the largely forested area of the Congo River basin.
Central Africa - Wikipedia
WEBThe West African Sao civilization flourished from ca. the 6th century BCE to as late as the 16th century CE in northern Central Africa. The Sao lived by the Chari River south of Lake Chad in territory that later became part of Cameroon and Chad.
West and Central Africa | OCHA
WEBThe West and Central Africa region is the epicentre of a fast-growing crisis with unprecedented levels of armed violence and insecurity.
West and Central Africa - Global Focus
WEBJun 16, 2022 · At the end of 2021, there were 10.7 million people of concern in West and Central Africa – an increase of more than 1.1 million in a year, including 900,000 new IDPs. Across the region, political instability, non-state armed groups and climate-related pressure on resources fuelled conflict and forced people to flee, including in risky mixed ...