Meghan and Harry donate towards Nigerian flood relief after revelation that Duchess is Nigerian

PRINCE Harry and his wife Meghan Markel have made a significant donation to charities working in Nigeria after the Duchess of Sussex revealed she discovered she is 43% Nigerian after taking a genealogy test.

Making the revelation in the latest episode of her bombshell podcast Archetypes, Meghan, 41, who was excited, opened up about her roots. Her revelation has sparked off a flurry of commentary in the Nigerian media  and although it is not year clear what part of Nigeria she comes from, research onto the matter is certain to continue.

In response to the revelation, a representative of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex confirmed that the couple's Archewell Foundation made donations to Save the Children and Unicef. Both charities are helping to address the impact of the floods that are currently ravaging parts of Nigeria and providing relief to victims.

Of late, a combination of heavy rain and a water release from a dam in neighbouring Cameroon, has led to massive flooding in Nigeria, leading to the deaths of more than 600 people, displaced around 1.4m and damaging 440,000 hectares of farmland. Save the Children Nigeria has revealed that more than 1.5m children are at risk after the devastating flooding in Nigeria.

Over recent weeks, Nigeria has suffered from a deluge that has come to characterise the rainy season, with the situation exacerbated by the River Benue overflowing its banks. Due to the fact that neighbouring Cameroon opens its dams on the river in the rainy season, eastern Nigeria suffers the effects, with Benue, Kogi and Anambra states in particular being hard hit.

River Benue flows into Nigeria from Cameroon and the Cameroonian authorities have built the Lagdo Reservoir 50 km south of the city of Garoua to help regulate the flow of water. Whenever the water in the artificial lake rises dangerously, however, the Cameroonians open the dam but because the Nigerian authorities have no flood control plans, this always leads to problems.

United Nations officials have warned that as many as 19m people are facing the risk of food shortages in Nigeria this year as a result of the floods. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, cereal production would likely decline by 3.4% in Nigeria this year due to flooding, high agriculture production costs and insecurity.