Torrential rains sweep through West and Central Africa

Houses are partially submerged following a dam collapse in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Sept. 10, 2024. People walk through floodwaters following a dam collapse in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Sept. 10, 2024.

Houses swept away to the very last brick. Inmates frantically fleeing the city's main prison as its walls got washed away by water rising from an overflowing dam. Corpses of crocodiles and snakes floating among human bodies on what used to be main streets.