Nigeria Flooding - A Local Solution

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Hart awaram, a public servant and one of the community leaders who lives in myjeras capital, abuja, has returned to his village to help save it from evosion. Extreme weather events in nigeria, made worse and more frequent by climate change, contributes to the problem of erosion. Intense rainfall and run off are creating gullies about to 55 feet deep and wide enough to swall six story buildings. The nigerian emergency management agency indicates that in 20 20, flooding directly affected more than two million people.

Earth’s changing climate is already displacing millions of people, worsening tension and conflict, and sometimes violence – for example, between farmers and traditional nomadic herders in Nigeria. Part 6 of The Repair, our series on the climate emergency.

Reported by Ugochi Anyaka-Oluigbo, with reporting and production assistance from Nchetachi Chukwuaja and Tim Cuttings Agber. The series story editor is Cheryl Devall. Mix by John Biewen.

Music in this episode by Lili Haydn, Kim Carroll, Chris Westlake, Lesley Barber, Cora Miron, Alex Weston, Fabian Almazan, and Maetar. Music consulting by Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.