'Everyone has to work so the family can survive': floods in Nigeria force children out of school and into work

Fears of child exploitation as families forced to send sons and daughters out to work to make ends meet after the country's deadliest floodsJust before the heavy rains began, most schoolchildren were about to start the new term. Jonah Ovat's three teenage sons were excited about going back to their secondary school in Obubra. Here in Cross River state, as in other parts of Nigeria, the rains that began in August brought large-scale flooding. The country's two major rivers burst their banks and a national disaster was declared in four other states as floodwater drowned farms and destroyed crops worth millions of naira in Obubra. Continue reading...