Floods hit Somali leper community
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A leper community in southern Somalia is in danger, after floods wash away their housing.
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A cholera outbreak in Somalia has killed more than 115 people and hospitalized 724 in towns where people were forced to use contaminated water from a flooded river, doctors said Wednesday. More violence hit the capital, a day after the president ruled out talks with a moderate leader of Somalia's ousted Islamic movement, a setback for efforts to hold broad reconciliation talks in the war-torn country.
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Some 45,000 people in Mozambique have been displaced by flooding along the Zambezi valley, authorities say.
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Fresh rains have caused new flooding in northeast Kenya, compounding the misery of stricken Somali refugees at United Nations camps, the UN has said, as the US military began aid air drops.
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Ongoro is usually one the driest parts of Uganda and Francis Egoliam was sure the rains would stop. But now his house has been swept away by floods and his camp has disappeared under water.
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The death toll from weekend flash floods in southwest Ethiopia has climbed to 194, state television said as rescuers fought heavy rains to save up to 20,000 people marooned by the waters.
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Rains battered portions of flood-ravaged southern Africa Thursday, killing at least three people in Malawi and forcing Zambia to declare a national disaster.
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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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PORT-AU-PRINCE - Tropical Storm Noel formed over the Caribbean yesterday, and forecasters warned the slow-moving system could send flash floods gushing down stripped hills in Haiti before it heads on to Cuba. The storm poses a serious threat to impoverished Haiti, which is recovering from floods earlier this month that killed at least 37 and sent more than 4,000 people ...
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Emergency services are working to restore power to Boscastle after flash floods wrecked the Cornish village.
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People in flood-hit areas are urged not to panic as massive efforts begin to get drinking water to those stranded.
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Flooding across much of West and Central Africa has killed at least 75 people and threaten around a half million, according to UN officials and government ay as several countries reported worsening conditions.
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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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By the time the first truckload of clean water solution reached the refugee camp in Desa Rueng Bakjok village on Sunday, about 50 of the 1,000 people living here on muddy ground under plastic tarps were suffering from dehydration and diarrhea.
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NANO VILLAGE, Pakistan, Feb. 12 -- Troops and rescue workers raced to a coastal town devastated when heavy rains burst a large dam, sending water surging through the streets and sweeping people into the Arabian Sea. At least 80 were dead and hundreds missing, an official said Saturday.
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Thousands of people in Mozambique who have been left homeless by recent flooding faced fresh misery Thursday from a tropical cyclone which was bearing down on the southern African nation.
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Mozambican marines rescued more than 1,700 people, including 900 children, from flooding in central Mozambique, officials said.