Africa floods bring death, devastation
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Torrential downpours and flash floods across Africa have submerged whole towns and washed away bridges, farms and schools. This summer's rains have killed at least 150 people, displaced hundreds of thousands and prompted the U.N. to warn Saturday of a rising risk of disease outbreaks.
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Port-u-Prince, Sept. 20 (NNN): Nearly 100 people in Haiti have died due to devastating floods in the wake of tropical storm Jeanne, which swept through the Caribbean in recent days.
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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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Flooding caused by heavy rains has killed at least 30 people and damaged thousands of homes in central and eastern Sudan, the government said Wednesday.
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Heavy flooding in Somalia killed at least seven people overnight, bringing the death toll to 80 from three weeks of torrential rains, witnesses and aid workers have said.
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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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Flooding devastates large areas of northern Ghana and Togo, and leaves thousands at risk of disease.
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The death toll caused by devastating floods in Haiti has climbed to over 1,600 people. Another 800 remain missing. Hurricane Jeanne is the latest tragedy to hit Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE: Floods unleashed by Tropical Storm Jeanne ravaged Haiti, killing more than 622 people in this deeply impoverished Caribbean nation, as well as 18 others elsewhere in the Caribbean.
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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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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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Fears mounted on Monday that downpours which have killed dozens in Africa, uprooted hundreds of thousands and devastated crops could continue past the end of the rainy season and hit areas that have so far escaped floods.
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More than 20 people have died in massive flooding around the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, according to a government statement Wednesday, which warned of further possible deaths.
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The number of deaths from floods in Haiti caused by tropical storm Jeanne has risen sharply to 1,970, with 884 still missing, officials say.
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Lakes, rivers and whole regions are drying up dangerously fast. And then there's the floods.
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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.
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Floods across Sudan have killed 101 people, spread disease and destroyed livelihoods by wiping out agricultural crops, officials said on Wednesday.