African deluge affects 1.5m people
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Â· Nearly 200 drowned and 650,000 homes destroyed Â· UN appeals for aid as food sent to seven countries
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British charities launched an emergency appeal Thursday to limit further suffering when the annual rains arrive in about a month in Sudan&#39;s war-torn Darfur region and neighbouring Chad.
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Five people have been killed in flash flooding after days of heavy rain in Fiji, local media reports.
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Snow. Floods. Icy winds. Maybe even a tornado. South Africans are facing one of their harshest winters in years, with at least four deaths blamed on flooding from heavy rain that has caused travel delays in the south and west of the country.
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More than 1,000 people a day die as a result of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a report says.
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Efforts continue to deliver aid to large parts of Africa after heavy rains and flooding in at least 14 countries.
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More than 1,080 people are either dead or missing after rivers of mud and volcanic ash triggered by a typhoon swamped villages in the Philippines, civil defence officials said.
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Researchers called the situation in Darfur a "demographic catastrophe" on Friday after the first scientific study done in the region found high death rates both before and after the displacement of some 1.5 million people.
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Up to 1.5 million women and children are at risk of &quot;acute malnutrition&quot; after Bangladesh&#39;s worst floods for six years, two UN agencies said yesterday.
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More than 1.3m Bangladeshis hit by Cyclone Sidr will face monsoon rains in inadequate shelter, Oxfam warns.
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Up to 130 people have so far been confirmed dead in east Africa as a result of the earthquake 4,350 miles away off Indonesia. Tidal waves that hit the Somali coast caused widespread destruction, washing away roads and submerging coastal infrastructure.
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African monitors should deploy in camps to help protect the almost 1.5 million people displaced by the conflict in Darfur and should also monitor police to help build
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Heavy rain, swirling waters, mud, silt and marsh combined to hamper frantic efforts to reach thousands of villagers marooned by deadly flash floods in southern Ethiopia, officials have said.
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Port-Au-Prince - Widespread flooding and mudslides have killed 1 105 people, officials said on Thursday, while 1 250 people remain missing after Haiti was lashed by Tropical Storm Jeanne.
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Flooding devastates large swathes of east and west Africa, leaving dozens dead and thousands homeless.
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Devastating floods in northern Haiti have claimed more than a 1000 lives and seriously wounded another 900. And a UN official in the impoverished Caribbean nation told journalists on Thursday that another 1200 people are missing and possibly dead.
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BEIRA, Mozambique  - Heavy rains from a cyclone sparked more flooding in Mozambique on Sunday, worsening a humanitarian crisis that has already killed 45 people and forced 140,000 from their homes.