Struggle to aid Mozambique flood victims (BBC)

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By Peter Greste
BBC News, Caia, Mozambique

From the air, the Zambezi valley looks more like an inland sea than the river it is.

Although the main channel is clear enough, with reeds lining the bank, the water now spreads almost as far as the eye can see.

The roofs of submerged mud huts dot the water like giant lilies, while fields of corn and sugar cane choke in rising water.

It is spectacular; but it is also deeply worrying to the authorities struggling to contain this slow-burning disaster.

The waters began rising weeks ago, when unseasonably heavy rains fell in the Zambezi's headwaters in Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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