Ugandan president hits the road to raise flood aid
KAMPALA (AFP) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Friday led hundreds in walking through the capital to raise funds for victims of recent floods that have killed 20 people and affected 300,000 in the north and east.
At least 300 people in 22 African nations countries have died in floods over the past two months, according to figures from governments, hospitals and humanitarian sources compiled by AFP.
Humanitarian groups said the flooding -- the continent's worst in 30 years -- has affected at least 1.5 million people from one side of the continent to the other.
"The biggest victim of these floods is the bridges. We need to first of all repair them, but maybe we need to rebuild them in a different way because they were built assuming there would be no rising water," Museveni told the marchers outside Kampala.
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