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Drought ends in disastrous rains
All across the northern third of Africa the rains continue to fall. Normally dry lands are awash from Mauritania to Ehtiopia.

Nobody's able to say this is part of any larger pattern, of course. But some warming projections have been telling us to expect weather extremes and surprises. Flooding along the fringes of the Sahara counts undeer the surprise category.
That's the CIA's official map of Africa.