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MAPUTO .- Hunger and disease are the new threats they faced yesterday more than one million flood victims in Mozambique, after the start of the fall of water in some areas of the country.

Sources from the World Health Organization (WHO) warned of the rapid emergence of epidemics of cholera and malaria among the refugees, who remain in precarious conditions and their number is greater than hitherto had been brought.

The range of aid agencies has been extended north of the worst affected regions, the valleys of the Limpopo and Save rivers to reach downtown areas of the country where famine has also emerged.

The crops and most of the cattle have been lost in the provinces of Gaza and Inhamban, which according to unconfirmed reports, raise a million and half the number of those affected by the disaster. Read the rest of this entry »