Mozambique begins flood mission
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Emergency workers in Mozambique launch an operation to rescue thousands trapped by the Zambezi flood waters.
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International aid starts to arrive in flooded Bolivia, which the UN says is suffering its worst ever disaster.
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Mozambique used canoes and helicopters to ferry ballot papers to remote rural districts for Wednesday&#39;s election to pick a successor to President Joaquim Chissano who spent 18 years in office.
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Floods that have killed 29 people in Mozambique have worsened and the government may call for international help to rescue more than 500,000 people threatened by the rising water, Prime Minister Luisa Diogo said on Friday.
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International aid starts to penetrate the areas worst affected by last Sunday's Indian Ocean wave.
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New efforts are under way to reach some 100,000 Somali refugees in camps cut off by floods in north-east Kenya.
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Thousands of Mozambicans living near main rivers are urged to leave their homes, as waters rise after heavy rain.
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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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Water released through floodgates at a mighty dam in northern Mozambique is worsening floods that have already killed dozens of people and swept away hundreds of homes, the prime minister said Friday.
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Relief workers send in emergency supplies as rescuers face a humanitarian crisis in Mozambique.
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The United Nations and aid groups have launched a massive humanitarian operation in Kenya to assist more than 150,000 people hit by killer floods caused by unusually heavy seasonal rains.
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Hundreds of extra emergency staff, troops and police mobilised in flood-stricken regions.
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Pakistan launched a huge relief operation for some 20,000 people affected by torrential rains in the southwest, as floods and avalanches pushed the death toll over 260 nationwide, officials said on Saturday.
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Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Diogo has warned that torrential rains could wreak more havoc than heavy floods in 2001 when nearly 1,000 people died, as authorities urged people to start evacuating.
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A powerful tropical storm killed four people and injured at least 70 in Mozambique's resort town of Vilanculos, where thousands of homes were destroyed along with the hospital and power grid, officials said on Friday.
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South Africa is to help Mozambique cope with the aftermath of a cyclone which hit the country on Thursday.
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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.