The rest of the fatalities were drowned in the floods and 85 suffered injuries of varying severity, the report circulated to the media added.

The tragedy, however, has a greater magnitude, as official statistics report that in the most affected regions, Maradi, Zinder and Tahoua, all in the south, there are 75,000 victims.

The floods have affected more than 75,700 people and have left 9,700 houses damaged, 11,600 heads of livestock and 17,700 tons of food lost and “various material damages” which it refrains from specifying.

The report is provisional since the rainy season in Niger runs from June to September and generally causes enormous human and economic devastation.

In this sense, the memory of the biblical downpours of 2022 is still fresh, causing the death of 190 people, 200 injured and 250,000 victims, losses from which this small West African country is beginning to recover as it confronts Islamist groups operating in the Sahel region.

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