Millions at risk in flood-hit Nigeria; relief chief highlights hunger in Burkina Faso

More than 2.8 million people have been impacted by Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade, with 1.3 million displaced and hundreds of lives lost, said the UN chief on Friday, expressing his sadness at the devastation.

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