Mozambique on Alert for Possible Flooding Along Limpopo River
Mozambique’s disaster management agency warned that more than 7,000 people living near the Limpopo River in the southern African country are directly at risk from possible floods.
The river has risen to seven meters, two meters above the flood-alert level, the Maputo-based state-run Instituto Nacional de Gestao de Calamidades said in an e-mailed statement today. The agency started preparing its emergency operation centers to deal with any floods, it said.
The Limpopo River flows along the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa into southern Mozambique on its route to the Indian Ocean. Floods in neighbor South Africa caused about 1 billion rand ($145 million) in losses to grape, corn and sunflower crops, according to Agri SA, a farmers’ association.
To contact the reporter on this story: Fred Katerere in Maputo at fkaterere@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin at asguazzin@bloomberg.net
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