UGANDA PRESIDENT ON FLOOD MARCH !

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is leading a march in the capital, Kampala, to help raise funds for victims of the recent flooding. The UN estimates at least 300,000 people are still affected by the heaviest rains in three decades. The floods in August and September affected more than 15 African nations.

In Ghana, the UN has appealed for $10m for some 75,000 people threatened by malnutrition after the floodwaters destroyed crops and food stores.

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The UN's Ghana co-ordinator, Dawda Toure, said the money was needed urgently. "It is about helping to meet the most immediate needs of the population... the lifesaving ones that we are embarking on. But also we need to be restoring livelihoods," he told the BBC's Network Africa. An estimated 18,000 people in northern Ghana lost their homes to the floods and the UN says tents will be distributed as temporary shelter until the displaced have rebuilt their homes on higher ground
The march in Uganda is being organised by MPs from the flooded areas. The floods, which have ravaged the north-eastern parts of the country since April, are beginning to sweep through other districts.

BBC NEWS REPORT.