/ 15 March 2001

MALAWIANS STRANDED BY FLOODS

SOME 80% of victims of flooding in the southern Malawi district of Nsanje more than a month ago have yet to receive emergency food aid. Nsanje, which borders Mozambique, and three other southern districts were battered by some of the worst flooding in living memory, leaving some 60 000 people homeless. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday said renewed heavy rains in recent days had disrupted the distribution of some 690 tonnes of food aid to the flood victims. – AFP