Flooding affects 357,000 Ethiopians: U.N.
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The number of Ethiopians affected   by last month's devastating flash floods has reached 357,000,   including 136,528 forced to abandon their homes, a U.N.   humanitarian agency said on Thursday.
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The UN says Bangladeshi children and women face acute malnutrition after the worst floods for years.
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The United Nations will launch a global appeal for &#36;30 million in emergency aid to help Haiti recover from floods that killed hundreds of people, the executive director of UNICEF said on Wednesday on a visit to the impoverished Caribbean nation.
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Floods in southern Africa have displaced thousands of people, drowned livestock and put large numbers of children at risk from life-threatening diseases, officials said on Tuesday.
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A flash flood killed six people in southern Algeria when torrential rains caused wadis to overflow, while high winds brought down trees and walls, press reports said Saturday.
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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.
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Severe flood damage has in two months affected more than 65,000 people in west Africa, making thousands homeless and wrecking infrastructure, the Red Cross and Red Crescent organisations said Friday.
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More rains are on the way across Africa - and already more than a million people across a swathe of 17 countries already suffering the effects of severe floods.
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Up to five million people have been left  without basic essentials by the Indian Ocean tsunami, lacking  either water or food or basic sanitation, a senior U.N.  official said on Wednesday.
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ADDIS ABABA -- More than 680 people have died in a suspected cholera outbreak in Ethiopia that has also affected neighboring countries, officials said yesterday. Some 60,000 people have been infected, but the country's Health Ministry is resisting pressure to declare an emergency despite a United Nations warning that the disease is an epidemic. "The fact that it is spreading ...
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At least 500 people have died after tropical storm Jeanne flooded Haiti last week, a UN spokesman has said, with the toll expected to rise as waters recede.
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More rains are expected across Africa, as flooding affects more than 1m people across 17 countries.
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Floods unleashed by torrential rain have killed at least 118 people and left 86 missing in southwest China. Authorities yesterday called in thousands of army and navy personnel to help after five days of continual
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More than a million people across a swathe of 17 African countries are  suffering the effects of severe floods.
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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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Torrential rains spilled a river from its banks in southern Ethiopia, killing at least 125 people as it submerged five villages, knocked down grain silos and swept away cattle, a police official said Monday.
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At least five people have been killed in severe floods in Indonesia's capital and surrounding areas with more than 100,000 people left homeless after days of torrential rain, a disaster official said on Saturday.