SANDEMA, Ghana — As rain fell in torrents onto her dirt-walled home in northern Ghana, Asubonga Apebani tried desperately to staunch the leaks in her roof.
But when floodwaters swirled through her village, her house collapsed, leaving her homeless and hungry along with hundreds of thousands of other hapless Africans who have suffered a similar drenching fate across the continent’s sub-Saharan belt.
“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.
Source: GhanaWeb
