Heavy rains in Guinea have killed four people and displaced thousands.

The rains have displaced 20,000 families, flooded homes, roads and bridges, caused numerous landslides and washed away livestock, Guinea’s National Emergency and Humanitarian Disaster Management Agency said today.

The agency has sent its first humanitarian convoy to the affected areas and to schools where people have taken refuge after their homes were flooded, said Lance Touré, the agency’s director general. It is working on two more humanitarian convoys.