Cholera cases explode after extreme rains fuelled by climate change in west and central Africa

In west and central Africa, heavy rains and flooding show climate change is another thumb on a scale already weighed down by war and disease.

Cholera cases explode after extreme rains fuelled by climate change in west and central Africa
Residents walk as they leave the flooded areas in Maiduguri, northern Borno state, Nigeria in September.

In west and central Africa, heavy rains and flooding show climate change is another thumb on a scale already weighed down by war and disease.