More than 100 people killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe
Devastating floods have killed more than 100 people in southern Africa since the beginning of the year and displaced hundreds of thousands, as authorities and aid workers warn of hunger, cholera and attacks by crocodiles that have spread with the waters.
More than 70 people have died in Zimbabwe and 30 in South Africa, where hundreds of people were evacuated from Kruger national park earlier this month after a deluge of rain.
The death toll in southern Mozambique is 13 people, according to the national disaster management agency, including three killed by crocodiles as the Limpopo River and other waterways overflowed.
Henriques Bongece, the secretary of Mozambique’s Maputo province, which includes the country’s capital of the same name, said the animals seemed to have been washed into the area by flood water from South Africa.
