Sam Fraser-Baxter

Climate change supercharged late typhoon season in the Philippines, highlighting the need for resilience to consecutive events

A Red Cross volunteer speaks to a man in the Philippines infront of a destroyed house with palm trees in the background.

The 2024 typhoon season in the Philippines was extraordinary, with six typhoons affecting the country within just 30 days, several of them simultaneously active in the region. This clustering of storms in November, never before witnessed in the basin, affected more than 13 million people, destroying lives and livelihoods and putting enormous strain on resources and infrastructure.

Conflict, poverty and water management issues exposing vulnerable communities in Africa to extreme floods that are now common events because of climate change

A man in a white red cross bib assists a woman walking next to floodwaters in Chad.

The rainy season from July to September 2024 was marked by extremely heavy and sometimes unprecedented rainfall in large parts of the Sahel region, leading to catastrophic flooding in Sudan in August and in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon in September. In total more than 2000 people lost their lives and millions were displaced.