Rain or Shine
MOZAMBIQUE appealed for international aid yesterday to help the country recover from flooding that has left 200,000 people homeless, killed 15, and caused huge crop losses.
The government said that122,500 acres of maize, rice and other crops have been destroyed by the flooding. Weeks of almost continuous rainfall had caused rivers to surge over their banks, mostly in southern and central areas of the former Portuguese colony.
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