Overview

• At least 200 fatalities confirmed in the May 29 flash floods in Mokwa, Niger State, with over 1,000 people still missing and feared dead
• Rescue teams and volunteers face challenges recovering bodies due to blocked culverts, inadequate drainage and severe erosion
• The Nigerian Meteorological Agency had issued flash flood warnings for 15 states days before the disaster struck Mokwa National Emergency Management Agency and federal relief packages have been slow to arrive, leaving communities without food, shelter or medical supplies
• Aid groups and officials caution that stagnant waters and unrecovered corpses risk triggering disease outbreaks if search operations do not accelerate