内容摘要：“I feel good here, even among the rubble,” Shamtan said, sipping tea at the tent near his field.

“I feel good here, even among the rubble,” Shamtan said, sipping tea at the tent near his field.

“In certain areas, proper drainage isn’t there … and most of these disasters take officials of emergency management agencies in various states by surprise even though there has been consistent flooding over the past three years,” said Idris. As a result, “a lot of people don’t believe it will be any different” this time around.Mokwa is a key meeting and transit point for traders from the south and food growers in the north of the country.

In the town, Mohammed Tanko, 29, a civil servant, told reporters that he lost at least 15 people from the house he grew up in.“The property [is] gone. We lost everything,” Tanko said.For fisherman Danjuma Shaba, 35, the floods destroyed his house, forcing him to sleep in a car park.

“I don’t have a house to sleep in. My house has already collapsed,” Shaba told the AFP news agency.As Nigeria’s rainy season begins, typically lasting for six months, the Nigerian Meteorological Agency has warned of possible flash floods in 15 of Nigeria’s 36 states, including Niger State, between Wednesday and Friday.

The most concerning thing about these floods is “this isn’t even the peak of the rainy season,” said Idris. “In some states, the rains have only been there for a month and yet we’re seeing this.”

However, scientists have warned that the effects of"Russian business does everything possible to fill the gap. For many,  this is an opportunity to carve out their niche in the market," Natalia Zubarevich, a professor at Moscow State University and an expert in regional socioeconomic development, told Al Jazeera.

“The market cannot be empty if you can profit from it.”Still, the Russian market has changed in some ways since the invasion.

"Supply chains are now longer, goods become more expensive,” Burmistrov from Infoline-Analytics told Al Jazeera.Burmstrov said that consumers have not seen the true impact of higher prices because the Russian government has provided low-interest subsidised loans to support parallel imports.