Hunger lurks as African floods recede (BBC)

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By Will Ross
BBC News, Accra

The past few weeks have seen some of the worst floods in living memory across a large area of Africa.

From Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east, hundreds of thousands have been displaced and many communities have been cut off.

I visited the worst-hit areas in the north of Ghana and neighbouring Togo, which are more used to battling drought than floods.

Finding out what I could by telephone, my first report on the floods was from hundreds of miles away in Accra but I soon saw the benefit of getting a little closer to the action.

My report had mentioned that the Ghanaian navy had dispatched two boats to the north of the country to help out.
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