Across Subsaharan Africa, Floods Kill Hundreds, Displace Millions, Wipe Out Crops - Reuters

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"I have no sleeping place and the grain stores also fell down. All of our crops have totally failed. We have no food. We are starving ... we have been eating only one meal a day," said Apebani, 67, who comes from Pungu in Ghana's Upper East region. She is among more than 300,000 people driven from their homes in north Ghana alone by torrential rains and floods that have swept over East and West Africa in recent weeks, destroying homes and schools and washing away crops and livestock.

Conservative estimates put the number of those killed by the deluges at some 200, and aid agencies say a million people have been affected from Ethiopia in the east to Senegal in the west.

In Uganda, one of the countries worst hit, death continued to fall from the sky. Ugandan officials said lightning killed seven children and injured 17 at Bujogo Primary School in western Hoima District on Monday, the first day of the new academic year,

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Farmer Majid Issaka from the Builsa district, one of the worst affected, saw his farm on the edge of a river disappear beneath the floodwaters. "I came and saw the crops were destroyed," he said. He and others feared disease fomented by the floods would cause many more victims from cholera and malaria. "The mosquitoes are coming and many people have been falling sick," he said.

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http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/44407/story.htm

Seeing Climate Chaos in action is like watching a slow-motion train wreck. god this hurts.

I can't remember the last time I read about them having a good year or bumper crop.