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Floods in Uganda: Natural Hazards

eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/19000/19110/Uganda_TMO_2007238_lrg.jpg May 18, 2007 (2.44 MB JPG) Flooded rivers in Central Uganda cut off access to some northern and eastern sections of the country in mid-September 2007, reported the Monitor, a Kampala (Uganda) news service, on September 18. Like many other countries in western, central, and eastern Africa, Uganda faced severe flooding as a result of unusually heavy rains from July through September. By September 18, the floods had killed at least 10 and affected about 300,000 people in Uganda, said the United Nations Office for th…