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Climate Change Blamed as New Flood Plains Plague Mozambique
The flooded Maganja da Costa district in Mozambique on Jan, 21, 2015. Mozambique’s National Institute for Disaster Management blames climate change for the worsening floods, which this year wiped out crops and left tens of thousands homeless.
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Over the last seven years the Mozambican village of Guguruni has housed hundreds of people whose homes elsewhere were destroyed by floods. This year it succumbed.
The plight of its inhabitants, who again are seeking a place to settle, underscores the task confronting authorities straining to find dry land for people living in areas hit by seasonal rainfall that the government of the southern African country says is becoming increasingly severe.