MANHICA, Mozambique: Erica Raimundo Mimbir delivered her first baby on a school desk, the only dry place she found after days marooned in her flooded home in southern Mozambique. “I wanted to die because of the labor pains and the conditions,” the 17-year-old said in a village in the province of Maputo. Evacuated by boat the next day, Mimbir took shelter with relatives, among some 650,000 Mozambicans the United Nations says have been affected by torrential rains since December.

More than 150 people have been killed and some 800,000 affected in the southern and central provinces of Mozambique.

MANHICA, Mozambique: Erica Raimundo Mimbir delivered her first baby on a school desk, the only dry place she found after days marooned in her flooded home in southern Mozambique.…

Erica Raimundo Mimbir gave birth to her first child on a school desk, the only dry surface she could find after spending days trapped in her flooded home...