Extreme weather and heavy rainfall have created these flood events, which have washed away parts of villages, ruined crops, and threatened lives. A flash flood in Chattogram, Bangladesh early July that killed Jesmin Akter’s poultry, flooded a paddy field, and collapsed their family house. READ | Before the Flood: Lessons from Attempts to Predict DisplacementCan Indigenous Knowledge Guide AI Development? The AfDB now has set up a bank-wide “seminar” to assess and prepare for various impacts of the present El Niño. READ | Penny Beames on the Global Water Security Center’s Analysis of “Super” El Niño