Weary Ugandans forced to flee by floods
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AMASENIKO, Uganda  - Mary Akiteng has spent half her life fleeing wars and cattle raids. Now she is being chased across Uganda by flood water.
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Villages along the western coast of Aceh Province in Indonesia, where help was slow to arrive, appear to have suffered some of the worst losses in the tsunami.
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Rescuers and volunteers are struggling to reach nearly 190,000 Indonesians left homeless by devastating floods sparked by heavy rains in and around Jakarta, as the death toll rose to seven.
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Flood victims in the worst-hit parts of the country are so severely traumatised some consider suicide, it is claimed.
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REAL - Terrified survivors were yesterday fleeing the northeastern Philippines as a new storm bore down on the area where floods and landslides have killed 412 people and left nearly 200 missing.
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In this nation beset by violence, disease and environmental devastation, weary relief workers struggled yesterday to gauge the magnitude of the latest disaster
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KAMPALA, Uganda  - A small group of suspected  gunmen stormed Uganda's Water Ministry Wednesday and took three  people hostage to protest against proposals to allow President  Yoweri Museveni for a third term.  Police and soldiers with assault rifles cordoned off the  three-story building, just 328 feet from Uganda's parliament  building in the capital Kampala.
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Thousands of Congolese reportedly flee to Uganda as a renegade general and DR Congo's army clash.
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Aid agencies are appealing for funds to help the victims of recent floods in a swathe of African countries.
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Terrified survivors were yesterday fleeing the northeast Philippines as a new typhoon bore down on the stricken area where flooding and landslides have left over 400 people dead and 150 missing.
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Around 90,000 face being evacuated from the Bolivian city of Trinidad amid rising floodwaters.
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Rescuers and volunteers are struggling to reach nearly 190,000 Indonesians left homeless by devastating floods triggered by heavy rains in and around Jakarta, as the death toll rose to 20.
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The heaviest rains to hit Uganda in decades are washing away Santa Ayaa's seeds of peace.
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Filipinos tried to flee flood-hit towns on Monday as relief supplies ran short and fears about disease mounted after last week&#39;s back-to-back typhoons left a trail of death and destruction.
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Thousands of people who have fled their homes in northern Uganda are preparing to go home, officials say.
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Hospitals in the Indonesian capital were overwhelmed on Tuesday with hundreds of flood victims suffering from water-borne diseases after the city's worst flooding in five years.
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Tens of thousands of people affected by flooding in north-eastern Uganda remain cut off from aid.