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Floods in east Africa affect up to 1.8 million

Floods in east Africa affect up to 1.8 million
Over 78,000 forced to flee in Kenya
Nov. 17, 2006. 12:28 PM
REUTERS


NAIROBI — Torrential rains and floods have hit up to 1.8 million people in the Horn of Africa, driving tens of thousands from their homes and threatening to trigger epidemics, U.N. aid bodies said today.

In the latest reports of growing disaster around the region, the UNHCR refugee agency said rising waters had uprooted more than 78,000 people in northeast Kenya and completely cut off three refugee camps near Kenya's border with Somalia.............read more

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