Nigeria floods: Dam overflow creates new crisis for insurgency-hit region
Nigeria floods: Dam overflow creates new crisis for insurgency-hit region

Floodwaters from an overflowing dam leave homes, schools and businesses submerged in parts of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in northeast Nigeria.

An epicentre of more than a decade-long jihadist insurgency, the city is now dealing with what the United Nations refugee agency in Nigeria (UNHCR) is describing as the worst flooding in 30 years.