Africa flood relief gathers pace
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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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The massive global aid operation to help the victims of Sunday&#39;s earthquake and tsunamis in the Indian Ocean is beginning to deliver results.
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Hundreds of thousands of people are desperately looking for food and shelter across many African countries, as record floods and fresh downpours continue to hamper relief efforts on Sunday.
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loods have ravaged African nations including Ghana and Togo in the west, along with Sudan, Uganda, Somalia and Kenya in the central and eastern regions. At least 200 people have died and hundreds of thousands are displaced
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The victims of the latest floods in Mozambique may take longer to put their lives back together than those caught in the devastating downpours of seven years ago, the Red Cross warned Thursday.
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International aid organizations rushed yesterday to respond to the tsunami that left thousands dead in Asia, hindered by telephone lines knocked out by the floodwaters or clogged with calls.
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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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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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Some 45,000 people in Mozambique have been displaced by flooding in the Zambezi valley, officials say.
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As desperately hungry flood victims wander the streets of Gonaives searching for help, tons of food aid is piling up in a warehouse guarded by UN peacekeepers.
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Dozens of people  are reported dead, as the devastating floods in East Africa spread to Rwanda and Malawi.
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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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The death toll from a series of earthquakes that hit central Africa rose Monday to 43 as a major aid operation for hundreds of injured and thousands of homeless gathered pace amid new aftershocks.
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Relief agencies struggled to rush aid to more than 3 million people in Africa and Asia who lack food and medicine as the number of fatalities from the weekend&#39;s earthquake and tsunamis
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Mud continues to be one of the biggest obstacles to relief efforts in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region. Heavy rains have washed out roads and airstrips and the rainy season is expected to last another month or two.
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Thousands of flood-stricken Guyanese waited for food aid along a main highway Thursday, as this South American country struggled to recover from flooding caused by the heaviest rains in a century.
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More aid arrives in communities devastated by the Asian tsunami, as the clean-up operation continues.