FLOODING on the Pungue and Buzi rivers in the central Mozambican province of Sofala has continued to worsen, reports Tuesday’s issue of Noticias, the Maputo-published daily. The Pungue river water has covered and inundated a 2-3km stretch of the Beira-Zimbabwe highway, making it unadvisable for anything other than four wheel drive vehicles to attempt to cross the flooded area. The height of the river at the Pungue bridge was measured on Monday at 8,3m, and was still rising. Further south, the Buzi river is also rising, thanks both to heavy rains and to discharges from the Chicamba dam on the Buzi’s main tributary, the Revue.