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Floods Devastate Africa

Deluge triggers humanitarian crisis

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 20, 2007 3:04 AM CDT

(Newser) – Several of Africa's poorest countries have been devastated by a catastrophic deluge of rain, washing away lives, communities and crops. As many as 18 of the normally driest countries in the world, from Senegal, Mauritania, Mali and Burkina Faso in the west, to Kenya, Sudan...   Read full story »

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