Torrential rain brings devastating floods to parts of Africa

Floods, coming from exceptional rainfall, have killed more than 200 people and affected over a million more, in a band of countries from Senegal to Sudan, AFP news agency quotes the UN as saying. 

Julie Belanger from the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is quoted by AFP as saying that, in 11 countries in West and Central Africa, 760,000 people have been impacted and 110 killed, "and the rains are not over". 

A further 103 people have died in Sudan, AFP quotes the country's civil defence organisation as saying. 

In Senegal a year's worth of rain fell in just 24 hours.

Meanwhile, Burkina Faso has declared a state of national catastrophe following recent torrential rain.

This article originally appeared on BBC News

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