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/ 19 February 2007

Disease, hunger risk in Mozambique floods

Mozambique’s national disaster agency, already struggling to get food and clean water to thousands of victims of flooding, warned on Monday the worst could be yet to come as the rainy season gets under way. Paulo Zucula, the country’s top disaster official, said there was only one helicopter working to bring relief supplies to people stranded in isolated evacuation centres.

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/ 13 February 2007

UN starts food roll-out in Mozambique

The United Nations’ World Food Programme started handing out food aid on Tuesday to about 6 000 flood-hit Mozambicans and said their needs could become more desperate. Officials said the flooding of the Zambezi river had compounded food woes in the Southern African country where thousands were already in need of aid.

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/ 20 January 2007

Powers can’t ‘impose’ solutions on Zim

Foreign powers cannot "impose" political or economic solutions on Zimbabwe even though the deepening crisis in the African nation threatens to destabilise its neighbours, a senior Mozambique official said on Friday. "Each time you try to impose a solution from the outside, the results most of the time are not what we like," said Henrique Banze, Mozambique’s Deputy Foreign Minister.