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February 02, 2013

Early warning saved the day for flood-prone Mozambique
Johannesburg (AFP) Feb 02, 2013
Engulfed by a raging torrent of water last week, the town of Chokwe in southern Mozambique was all but destroyed for the second time in 13 years, but it emerged with a hugely lower death toll. As in 2000 when floods of biblical proportions claimed 800 lives, an underdeveloped network of dams and dykes allowed the swollen Limpopo River to burst its banks, submerging most of the province of Gaza, where Chokwe is located, under metres (feet) of water. But thanks to a decade-long effort to lessen th ... read more

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