Disease alert in flood-hit Africa / Flooding causes misery in several African countries / African floods submerge towns, wipe out farms and schools; 150 dead
Six largely overlapping stories from the past day that are related to, most recently, Friday's (updated to add the one from Al Jazeera):
Severe flooding across Africa has wrecked hundreds of thousands of homes and left many people vulnerable to water-borne diseases, officials say.
Scores of people have died, and much of the continent's most-fertile farmland has been washed away, in what is being described as a humanitarian disaster.
The UN said [that] more rain was expected, and warned that the need for food, shelter, and medicine was urgent.
Some 17 countries have been affected in West, Central, and East Africa.
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