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

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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.

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00:00We have to find a way to get out of here.

00:02We don't know if we can get out of here.

00:04We don't know if we can get out of here.

00:06We don't know if we can get out of here.

00:08We don't know if we can get out of here.

00:10We don't know if we can get out of here.

00:12We don't know if we can get out of here.

00:14We don't know if we can get out of here.

00:16We don't know if we can get out of here.

00:18We don't know if we can get out of here.

00:20We don't know if we can get out of here.

00:22We don't know if we can get out of here.

00:24We don't know if we can get out of here.

00:26We don't know if we can get out of here.

00:28Almost the whole of our shops are affected at the Monday Marches.

00:35The whole of our shops near El Keremi

00:37run about

00:39down to Posthoffice

00:41is already affected by the water.

00:55We are here at the reflective of President Bula

00:57to commiserate with the government and people of Borno State, most especially His Excellency

01:06the Governor and Your Eminence the Father of the State, over the very catastrophic flooding

01:16incident this morning that devastated a greater chunk of Maiduguri metropolis.

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