A displaced flood victim in a relief camp gestures as she speaksafter authorities at a relief camp told her to return home in Yenagoa in the oil-rich Niger Delta region, Nov. 15, 2012.
Nearly 6.1 million people in Africa’s most populous country were displaced by widespread flooding, making it last year’s second-largest disaster-induced displacement worldwide. Floods are common in Nigeria, especially over the past five years, but last year’s were the worst — livestock populations were ravaged and thousands of bridges, homes and roads, as well as farmland, were destroyed.