Two government ministries said on Friday that widespread flooding has killed more than 500 people in Nigeria, inundated nearly 90,000 homes and disrupted food and fuel supplies.
The floods have swept through 27 of Nigeria’s 36 states, affecting nearly 1.4 million people, the Ministries of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management said in an online post.
Nigerian authorities said floods caused by unusually heavy rains had increased since early summer and were exacerbated by the leakage of water from the Lagdo Dam in neighboring Cameroon.
“The scale of the disaster … is huge,” Mustafa Habib Ahmed, director general of the National Emergency Management Agency, said in a statement.
Nigeria
Symphony by: Iman Al Hashemi
During the civil war in Nigeria that broke out in 1967, the two warring factions declared a 24-hour armistice; This is so that the two sides can watch the Brazilian soccer player Pele playing in the Nigerian city of Lagos, away from the sound of gunshots and the sound of cannons, and from here the world confirmed that sports and the arts are stronger than war, and smarter than the politics of peacemakers, so the question remains: What if music is made Peace forever?
Baghdadi, of Arab origin, with security, weak in structure and honest in intention, from an Iraqi father and a Jordanian mother. He lived his youth in the prime of Alexandria, and spent most of his life in Syria; There he founded the symphony orchestra, and also co-founded the opera house, to differ in his musical creativity from all the others. His story is bloody sad, rather tragic, and its end was an epic, if you will, iconic, career; but more precisely Beethoven; The National Orchestra stopped abruptly, and with it his artistic journey in a split second, while he was playing Beethoven’s Second Movement Concerto; And that’s when, following suffering a sudden hemorrhage in the brain, suddenly and inadvertently fell onto the stage during the concert, bleeding a blood-red melody into the void, and so the musicians spent the night in the hospital dressed in concert clothes, behind black suits lined up like a line of winces, awaiting the inevitable fate of their leader, Which paralysis decided not to lead them following that day.
The genius Sulhi Al Wadi left a valid valley of works, and it became a precious musical treasure that is not valued for money. He presented many compositions of chamber music and orchestral, theatrical and cinematic melodies, with unique methods and a non-chemical magical composition, but the difficulty lies in understanding how much and how the emotional aura surrounding his compositions, sometimes His tracks are scaled and ignored, and his sanctification is sometimes announced following his death. In his 73-year career of effort and jihad, the melodies of (the valley) are still roaming in every valley, drawing a smile in the heart, despite the wear of mourning and the color of black; Where his music simulates dark, violent irony, and wounded ambition that is difficult to categorize, as if it were a neglected human statement, or a documented testimony of general despair, as the sun’s threads are hardly understood except by sunset, as a result of dyeing the Arab region with the blood of wars; To tell the true colors that they were never real, but the real truth remains, that when we focus on pain, the torment increases, and when we focus on hope, the reward increases.
The name: salahi valley
Date:
1934 – 2007 (73 years old)
Nationality: Iraqi
Activity: the music
Among his works:Adagio-Allegro-Adagio
In Nigeria, floods have claimed more than 500 lives since June
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More than 500 people have died since June in Nigeria’s deadliest floods of a decade. Bad weather also displaced 1.4 million people.
Since June, deadliest floods of the decade in Nigeria, caused by exceptional rains, killed more than 500 people and forced 1.4 million inhabitants to flee their homes, according to the authorities.
Since the onset of the rainy season, many parts of Africa’s most populous country have been ravaged by floods, raising fears of worsening food insecurity and inflation.
“More than 1.4 million people have been displaced, around 500 have been declared dead” and 1,500 others injured in the floods, the Nigerian Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs said on Tuesday (October 11th).
More than 45,000 homes and 70,000 hectares of farmland were also completely destroyed, the statement from the ministry’s deputy information director, Rhoda Ishaku Iliya, added.
A spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (Nema), Manzo Ezekiel, told AFP on Wednesday that the statement’s report dates from last weekend.
The rainy season usually starts in June, but the floods were particularly deadly between “August and September”, said Manzo Ezekiel.
“We are taking all necessary measures to provide relief to people affected by the floods,” said Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, an official with the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs.
On Friday, 76 people died in a boat accident in Anambra State (southeast of the country), when the flooding of the Niger River caused its sinking.
Further heavy rainfall expected
Heavy rains are once more expected in Nigeria in the coming weeks – the rainy season usually ends in November in the north and December in the south – raising fears of more damage.
Besides rain, floods are also caused by the release of water from several dams, a process believed to prevent flooding.
In 2012, particularly deadly floods left 363 dead and 2.1 million displaced.
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In Nigeria, a country of some 215 million people, rice farmers have warned that devastating floods this year might drive up prices, as rice imports are banned to boost local production.
According to a joint report published in September by the World Food Program (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Nigeria is already among the six countries in the world facing a risk high levels of catastrophic starvation.
With AFP
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