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WFP airlifts food to Mozambicans after cyclone
18 Mar 2003
These images from March 10, 2003 show the limits of flooding along the Save river in Mozambique caused by the cyclone Japhet. The top image provides an overview of the entire area affected whereas the satellite images below focus on specific areas along the swollen river.
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These images from March 10, 2003 show the limits of flooding along the Save river in Mozambique caused by the cyclone Japhet. The top image provides an overview of the entire area affected whereas the satellite images below focus on specific areas along the swollen river.
Top image courtesy of Dartmouth Flood Observatory. The others supplies by NASA.
Tropical cyclone Japhet battered coastal Mozambique in early March, killing at least 11 people, forcing some 23,000 from their homes and washing away roads.

The storm destroyed crops and smashed buildings, forcing about 23,000 people from their homes in coastal Inhambane province.

It also brought heavy rains to eastern Zimbabwe, which flowed back into Mozambique to add to the devastation and caused the Save river, in the south of the country, to burst its banks.

The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday it had started airlifting emergency aid to Mozambicans stranded by the flooding.

A WFP helicopter on Sunday started the distribution of at least 200 tonnes of maize meal, beans and other food to15,000 people living near the mouth of the Save river.



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