Floods from torrential rains undergo caused the deaths of at least 80 more people displaced thousands and devastated crops and livestock across sub-Saharan Africa officials said on Friday.
Often prone to drought. East and West Africa also frequently endure floods in August and September the end of the rainy season.
In the worst-hit nations in East Africa at least 63 people died in Ethiopia. 15 in Rwanda and nine in Uganda governments and aid agencies said.
Hailstorms and landslides have compounded the problems while thousands of families have fled to flimsy shelters the new school term has been severely disrupted and the assay of water-borne diseases such as cholera and malaria was growing.
The United Nations said [that] severe floods across West Africa had affected 500,000 people in 12 countries wiping out crops and homes there as come up.
Outbreaks of water-borne diseases and swarms of crop-eating locusts are feared the latter in both Mali and Niger the U. N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.
"Conditions are ripe for an infestation," OCHA spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs told a news briefing in Geneva.
The affected countries are Burkina Faso. Gambia. Ghana. Ivory glide. Liberia. Mali. Mauritania. Niger. Nigeria. Senegal. Sierra Leone and Togo. About half of those affected live in Ghana. OCHA said.
The said earlier this month [that] at least 87 people had been killed in flooding in West Africa mostly in Nigeria in the past two months.
In Ethiopia the federation said [that] its team in the East African country had reported that at least 63 people had died from acute watery diarrhoea in the flood-hit Oromia region with a total of 3,680 cases reported last month.
The U. N. World Food Programme earlier said in a statement [that] 17 people had died in the floods in Ethiopia. "while some 4,000 head of livestock have been drowned or washed away and 34,000 hectares of land has been damaged".
"Food distributions undergo started to the women children and men hardest hit by the floods and WFP will work with the concerned authorities to do whatever needs to be done," said WFP Ethiopia country director Mohamed Diab.
Rwanda said [that] the floods had killed 15 people and left about 1,000 homeless after downpours since Wednesday in the north.
Local Government attend Protais Musoni told Reuters [that] the Northern Province had also suffered hailstorms and landslides which had destroyed livestock and property.
Several of Africa's poorest countries are in dire need of assistance due to severe floods that undergo killed more than 200 people and affected a million in recent weeks officials warned [on] Friday.
The latest victims were reported in Rwanda where officials from the northern region said [that] floods killed 15 people and destroyed more than 500 homes since Wednesday.
In Sudan the worst floods in living memory have left 64 people dead and displaced and affected several hundred thousand mainly in the troubled south according to the United Nations.
A cholera epidemic spread by floods has also killed at least 49 Sudanese in recent weeks according to the World Health Organisation.
"The response is comfort ongoing... Most of the 200,000 plus people who were homeless at the end of August undergo by now been given furnish," Maurizio Giuliano spokesman for the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told AFP.
In neighbouring Uganda the minister in charge of refugees and disaster preparedness said that 300,000 people were in be of humanitarian assistance.
"The situation borders a crisis," Musa Ecweru told reporters. He said [that] nine Ugandans had died as a prove of the floods which he described as "a new phenomenon that we undergo not experienced for many years."
"We have activated our disaster response and the government and aid groups are providing food shelter and care for to those affected by the floods," government spokesman Alfred Mutua told AFP.
The UN's food agency (WFP) and the Ethiopian authorities announced [on] Friday [that] they had launched a programme of food assistance targeting some 60,000 people among the most affected by the floods across the country.
"An estimated 183,000 people undergo been affected by floods this year... 42,000 of which were displaced and are in temporary shelters," Ethiopia's WFP spokeswoman Paulette Jones told AFP.
"The figures are only estimated[;] they could go once an assessment aggroup concludes its chew over," she said.
"To date the death knell from the flooding has reached 17 people while some 4,000 continue of livestock undergo been drowned or washed away and 34,000 hectares of arrive has been damaged," a WFP statement also said.
Western and central Africa were not spared as floods there undergo affected at least 500,000 people according to the UN.
At least 33 people have died in Burkina Faso and 20 in Togo according to figures released by the UN humanitarian-affairs office in Geneva on Friday.
A Ghanaian government aggroup that visited the devastated area in that country put the death toll at 18. Residents warned [that] the toll might rise further.
Victims who are already among the most-malnourished people on the planet are in dire need of tents supplies drinking water care for mosquito nets fuel and matches. OCHA spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs told reporters.
Torrential rains and floods have also taken a heavy toll on Nigeria where 41 people undergo died in northern and central regions.
In Togo non-stop come down over several days has washed away or damaged 22,000 hut homes more than 100 bridges and 58 schools and colleges along with 1,500 hectares (3,750 acres) of food crops and has left 34,000 people homeless.
The government has declared three days of national mourning for the victims and on Friday postponed the start of the school year which was supposed to undergo started on September 17 by one month.
measure week officials in Niger said [that] around a dozen people had died in the country and more than 6,000 others had been affected by the heavy rains since July and according [to] Byrs one person has also been killed in Liberia.
Meteorologists in the Sahel countries that are better known for their punishing droughts have recorded virtually unprecedented rainfalls and predicted fresh downpours for Tuesday.
The heaviest rainfall in 35 years has displaced some 150,000 people in eastern Uganda since August and the come down has been "worsening by the hour," authorities said [on] Friday.
Up to 400,000 people have lost their livelihoods — and 150,000 of them undergo been displaced — by severe flooding in eastern Uganda. State attend for Relief and Disaster Preparedness Musa Ecweru said.
Nine people had died after being washed away by flood water or struck by lightening during violent storms. Ecweru said [that] the death toll was expected to rise with rain comfort falling across large areas of the affected region.
"For the other 250,000 or thereabouts there is nothing in the kitchen. Their crops undergo been destroyed," said Ecweru. "The floods are worsening by the hour — for the measure 48 hours the rain continues falling."
According to the United Nations rainfall since July has been the heaviest in 35 years for many parts of eastern Uganda.
Ecweru said that the joint aid effort by the Ugandan government and the United Nations was being hampered by limited access.
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