As torrential rains sweep through Central and West Africa, floods have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands across the region

As torrential rains across Central and West Africa have unleashed the most catastrophic floods in decades, residents of Maiduguri, the capital of the fragile Nigerian state of Borno - which has been at the center of an Islamic extremists' insurgency - said they have seen it all.

Unprecendented flooding in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Chad, Mali, Ghana and Liberia has triggered humanitarian crises. An estimated four million people — most of them children — are caught up in the devastation.

Flooding devastated swaths of West and Central Africa as well as Central and Eastern Europe, as experts pointed to the link between the floods and climate change. Millions of people across seven African countries have been displaced,

Heavy rains have caused massive flooding and devastation across several cities and towns across West and Central Africa, impacting millions of people. The floods have triggered humanitarian crises in Nigeria,