Mozambique floods could be worst in memory: UN
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Devastating Mozambique floods, which have killed seven people and displaced tens of thousands, could be the worst in recent memory, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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Floods have killed at least seven people, including five children, as the fourth week of heavy rains pounded Somalia, bringing the death toll to at least 96.
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Cyclone Ivan is expected to lash  Mozambique with heavy rains when it reaches land, worsening the  flooding that has engulfed parts of the southern African  nation.
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Heavy flooding kills six in Mozambique and leaves tens of thousands homeless
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Thousands of people in Mozambique who have been left homeless by recent flooding faced fresh misery Thursday from a tropical cyclone which was bearing down on the southern African nation.
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The United Nations and other agencies offered aid and helicopters to Pakistan Monday after floods unleashed by a cyclone and days of torrential rain left 1.5 million people devastated.
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Severe flood damage has in two months affected more than 65,000 people in west Africa, making thousands homeless and wrecking infrastructure, the Red Cross and Red Crescent organisations said Friday.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says the devastation in Indonesia's Aceh province is the worst he has ever seen.
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Flood victims in the worst-hit parts of the country are so severely traumatised some consider suicide, it is claimed.
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Floods in Mozambique have killed 29 people and wrecked thousands of homes after torrential rain and hurricanes swept through the country in the past two weeks, the government said on Wednesday.
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Officials in Haiti feared flash floods would hit impoverished areas of the nation early Monday, as Tropical Storm Noel lashed the country with heavy rains.
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Officials in economically ravaged Zimbabwe issued new warnings Wednesday of floods, as fears grew that flooding in neighboring Mozambique would be more extensive than in 2001 when 800 people died.
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Mozambique will forcibly evacuate 10,000  people who have defied calls to leave areas at risk of  flooding, the government said on Sunday as an advancing  tropical cyclone threatened to swell floodwaters.
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KOBE, Japan  - Earthquakes, floods and other  natural disasters could kill millions in the world's teeming  megacities and time is running out to prevent such a  catastrophe, the United Nations point man on emergency relief  said on Tuesday.
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BEIRA, Mozambique  - Heavy rains from a cyclone sparked more flooding in Mozambique on Sunday, worsening a humanitarian crisis that has already killed 45 people and forced 140,000 from their homes.
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Unrest in Haiti may force the United  Nations to divert ships carrying food for flood victims to the  Dominican Republic, where the aid can be put on trucks, a U.N.  spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Rains battered portions of flood-ravaged southern Africa Thursday, killing at least three people in Malawi and forcing Zambia to declare a national disaster.