and floods in the past month.

Tens of thousands of people were also affected in the neighbouring province of South Ubangi, through which the Oubangui river runs between DRC and the Central African Republic.

On the other side of the Congo river at least 50,000 people were affected by the downpours, prompting the Congo-Brazzaville government to declare a state of emergency.

On Thursday, newspaper Les Dépêches de Brazzaville reported three people had died, while on Friday residents reported a dozen deaths in the DRC’s southwestern Kasai province.

Heavy rains and landslides have also killed dozens across the wider east African region during weeks of downpours, with 29 buried by landslides in Kenya and 10 people drowned in a river in Tanzania, officials have said.

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