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Background information
Southern Africa
Localized flooding, affecting mainly households living in floodplains, is common during the southern Africa rainy season, which runs from November to April. This year however, the floods occurred earlier that usual and have been more wide-spread. Torrential rains are lashing Angola, Mozambique and Zambia, killing scores of people, leaving thousands homeless and causing severe crop damage.
Mozambique:
After 340mm of rain fell within 24 hours on 20th and 21st January, water levels reached one meter, leaving about 3,000 people homeless in Quelimane, capital of Mozambique's Zambezia Province, according to the National Disasters Management Institute (INGC). Five people are reported to have died.
Initial assessments indicated that the worst affected area in the province was Quelimane, but poor communications and infrastructure meant the extent of flooding in remote areas could only be determined in the next few days.
The rainy season in Mozambique usually lasts until the end of March
