• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Constative

Constative

News, Celebrity Lifestyle, Facts And References

  • Home
  • News
  • Celebrity
  • Entertainment
  • Facts File
  • Lifestyle
  • World

Heavy floods kills almost 200 people in Mozambique and Malawi

January 19, 2015 by Kelly Davies Leave a Comment

Flooding in Malawi has killed more than 176 people, displaced at least 200,000 others and left homes and schools submerged in water and roads washed away, the vice president of the southern African nation said on Friday.

Downriver in neighboring Mozambique, floodwater’s have left at least 176 people dead, according to Mozambican news agency AIM, displaced tens of thousands and damaged the main road linking the north and south of the country.

Dozens of people are missing in Malawi, with at least 153 unaccounted for in the worst affected southern parts of the country, Vice President Saulos Chilima said.

Editorial content

123

“It’s a very bad situation,” he said, speaking at a press conference in Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre.

floodsThe United Nations World Food Program said it plans to airlift more than 100 metric tons of food to the southern African to feed at least 77,000, but added in a statement that accessing Malawi’s southern districts has been “extremely difficult.”

Meanwhile, Malawi Vice President Saul Chilima announced that rescue workers had taken into safety more than 800 flood victims in Nsanje and Chikwawa districts in the south of the country.

He added that rising water levels were impeding efforts by army helicopters to reach a number of areas.

Mozambique is frequently hit by floods. In 2000 the country experienced its worst flood, in which more than 800 people were killed and hundreds of thousands were made homeless when waters severely submerged whole towns.

Malawi’s government said it is working on a disaster preparedness strategy.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Mozambique

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published.

Primary Sidebar

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT

More to See

Bizarre Facts About Tom Cruise

Fun Facts About The Hollywood Sign

Where’s the Cast of Saved By The Bell Now

Celebs Who Played in Kids’ Cartoons

RIP to Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Family Dog

The Most Secluded & Gorgeous Places To Visit Around The World

Footer

About Us

Constative.com is popular news and information site. With one hundred thousand unique monthly visitors Constative.com provides interesting and engaged news. We cover sports, entertainment and auto news.

For more information see our Contact Us page.

  • Contact Us
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy and Cookie Policy

Search

Copyright © 2021 · Constative,com "not a made up word"