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Horse cart drivers transport goods and passengers through deep flood waters in Sicap Mbao, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009. Torrential rains have lashed Africa's western coast for the past three months, killing 159 people and flooding the homes and businesses of over 600,000 others, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)