On average nine children were dying in the camp every day before the rains.

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But Russia's Tursunov was unable to build on that victory, going down 4-6 6-1 6-3 to talented Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci before the rains intervened.

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Neve, who is in Juba, said supply lines at refugee camps have been cut off and failure to get key supplies before the rains will lead to a humanitarian crisis.

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Neve, who is in the South Sudan capital of Juba, said supply lines at refugee camps have been cut off and failure to get key supplies before the rains will lead to a humanitarian crisis.

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This information was based on surveys made at the end of last year, before the poor belg rains last month.

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Just before Christmas the unseasonably heavy rains near Malindi town washed a family of hippopotamuses down the Sabaki River and out to sea.

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Houston Mayor Bill White said it was essential to get the jam cleared before heavy rains and wind begin Friday afternoon.

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Silted-up rivers must be expensively dredged before the dry season ends in May, or they will flood again with the first rains.

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It also brought heavy rains in the afternoon and a punctured tyre, which I fixed by the roadside before riding further west through eerily still countryside.

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