Flooded Togo's urgent aid appeal

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Source: BBC

Togo has issued an urgent international appeal for food and medicine to help deal with flooding that has affected almost half the countries in Africa.

Governments and aid agencies in the other affected nations are warning that hundreds of thousands of people are still awaiting vital relief supplies.

Twenty-three people are confirmed dead in Togo, with 20,000 others homeless.

It is estimated the recent floods, which are now subsiding, have killed at least 300 people across Africa so far.

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