Summary Flooding in Mozambique has killed at least 36 people and displaced nearly 70,000.
Flooding in Mozambique has killed at least 36 people and displaced nearly 70,000, the United Nations said Friday, as residents braced for a fresh storm surge.
"A total of 26 persons have died in (the worst affected southern province of) Gaza alone, with the nationwide death toll at 36," the UN in Mozambique said in a statement.
The number of displaced people now stood at 67,995 while nearly 85,000 have been affected by the raging waters in recent days, the UN said, urging donors to urgently make more funds available "to help deal with this emergency" in the impoverished southeast African nation.
Meanwhile, severe flooding continued to spread across the south of the country with the Mozambique government, international agencies and neighbouring South Africa scrambling to ease the humanitarian disaster.
The floods are a result of week-long torrential rains in South Africa and Zimbabwe that swelled the Limpopo river forcing an orange alert on January 12, when the toll began.
But the full impact of the rains were only now being felt.
