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Thousands wait to be plucked from floods in Mozambique
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 18 - 01 - 2008

Thousands of people in Mozambique were still
trapped in their homes Friday by rising floodwaters as heavy rains
continued to pound southern Africa, heightening fears of a
particularly severe flood season, according to dpa.
Mozambique's national disaster management agency INGC said close
to 2,000 people were still waiting to be brought to safety by
helicopter or boat as the death toll in the flooding rose to 12.
Aid agencies were preparing for a sharp deterioration of the
situation as summer rains, arriving earlier than usual, continued to
fall on Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe, feeding into rivers running
through neighbouring Mozambique, particularly the Zambezi.
Up to 250,000 Mozambicans living along the Zambezi, Africa's
fourth-largest river, could require food aid if flooding in the
valley, caused by the unavoidable opening of floodgates in the Cahora
Bassa dam continued, according to Action Aid and the UN World Food
Programme.
"We are doing everything we can so save lives. We are prioritizing
the removal of people from risk areas," Joao Ribeiro, INGC deputy
national director said.
The Zambezi had meanwhile claimed its first victim. The body of a
man, who was apparently fishing in the valley, was seen floating in
the water in Caia district bringing the death toll to 12, according
to the INGC.
In Zambia, whose President Levy Mwanawasa this week declared a
national disaster over the floods, a CARE worker said water levels in
the south, where thousands of hectares of farmland, several schools
and a key bridge have been submerged, were twice as high as the same
time last year.
Three people have died in Zambia and around 60,000 people
evacuated their homes in an effort coordinated by the vice-
president's office and drawing on the involvement of around 19,000
Zambian Red Cross volunteers.
CARE was preparing for an eventual outbreak of waterborne
diseases, such as cholera and malaria, evaluation monitor Michael
Schroll told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. CARE also predicted a
"serious threat" to the maize harvest.
Malawi and Zimbabwe have also been affected by the flooding. In
Malawi five people have died and in Zimbabwe, at least 30 people
succumbed to flooding caused by record heavy rains in December that
appear to have abated.
Devastating floods in Mozambique in 2000/2001 killed 700 people
and displaced half a million others.


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