Aid Teams Overwhelmed by Worst Mozambique Floods Since 2000

Rows of white tents stand in two adjacent camps on the outskirts of Mocuba in central Mozambique. They are hastily erected refuges from the nation’s deadliest floods in more than a decade.

The tent-towns’ occupants drape washing on lines strung between poles and cook cassava on charcoal stoves, waiting for the waters to subside so they can return home. Scores more displaced people mill about, hoping to be granted a place on registers entitling them to shelter and food from the United Nations, Mozambique’s state disaster management agency and aid groups that run the camps. Relief workers have been swamped by demands for help.