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Date: Fri Jan 10 2003 - 06:46:16 EST
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BLANTYRE (Reuters 08JAN03) - Floods have killed at least seven people and
displaced thousands more in Malawi, compounding the misery of the
impoverished southern African state, which is suffering critical food
shortages, officials said on Wednesday.
In neighbouring Mozambique, floods have washed away an estimated 400 homes
and disrupted power supplies in one northern province.
More than 30,000 people have been displaced in the central lakeshore
district of Salima and the northern border district of Karonga, Lucius
Chikuni, Malawi's commissioner for Disaster Preparedness, told Reuters.
In Mozambique, the same tropical storm pattern sent torrential rains
cascading on the northern provinces of Nampula and Zambezia. Flooding
wrecked at least two electricity pylons serving the city of Nampula,
leaving many of its two million residents without power, officials said.
Mozambique's National Meteorological Institute said another tropical
depression was likely to cause more heavy rains in the northern coastal
areas this week, compounding food supply problems that have already left
more than 600,000 people in need of food aid.
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