Scientists have found that the deadly floods across parts of West Africa in recent weeks were made more likely and intense by human-driven climate change, while the expansion of cities into flood-prone areas amplified the devastation, raising the thorny problem of how to better protect poorer urban communities.
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West African leaders have signed an agreement approving the construction of a gas pipeline linking Nigeria to Moroccoat a summit of regional bloc ECOWAS in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown.
Member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) signed an intergovernmental agreement on Sunday in Freetown, expressing support for the Nigeria-Morocco Atlantic gas pipeline, according to a joint Moroccan and Nigerian statement.
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The pipeline is designed to transport up to 30 billion cubic metres (bcm) of natural gas a year from Nigeria and West Africa through 13 West African countries to Morocco. Monday 20/07/2026
Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) signed an intergovernmental agreement on Sunday establishing the framework for the Nigeria-Morocco Atlantic gas pipeline, a major energy infrastructure project expected to transport natural gas from Nigeria to Morocco before connecting to Europe’s gas network.
Vice President Kashim Shettima and other West African leaders are currently at the Julius Maada Bio International Conference Centre in Lungi, Sierra Leone, for the 69th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS.
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A region emptying out under pressure Across West and Central Africa, the number of people forced from their homes keeps climbing, and the pace of that climb has become the story in itself. UNHCR’s most recent regional trends report put the total number of forcibly displaced and stateless people across West and Central Africa at…