A charity organisation, Save the Children, has reported that 427,000 children in Nigeria were displaced by climate-induced disasters in 2022.
According to a report released by the organisation on Monday, the 2022 flooding that occurred in different parts of Nigeria brought about the highest number of displacements in sub-Saharan Africa , with 2.4 million victims.
The organisation said data from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre showed that at least 1.85 million children in the region were left displaced by climate shocks at the end of last year, compared to one million children affected by similar crises in 2021.
According to the report, some of these children were displaced multiple times, while others only once, but all remained displaced from home at the end of the year, living in camps, with extended family, or other temporary arrangements.
The report also stated that flooding in Borno state and across other parts of Nigeria led to the country having sub-Saharan Africa’s highest number of new internal displacements due to climate disasters in 2022, with 2.4 million displacements and by the end of the year at least 854,000 people remained displaced by these shocks, including an estimated 427,000 children.
