Record floods hamper relief efforts as downpours continue across Africa

HUNDREDS of thousands of people were desperate for food and shelter across Africa yesterday, as record floods and fresh downpours hampered relief efforts.

Record floods hamper relief efforts as downpours continue across Africa

The continent’s worst floods in three decades have deprived some 1.5 million people of their homes and subsistence in 18 countries and killed close to 300.

In Uganda, one of Africa’s worst-hit countries, authorities said that renewed rainfall in north-eastern regions was complicating efforts to deliver aid to flood-affected areas.

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