Mozambique authorities on Tuesday said it had started emergency evacuations in the flood-struck south, where 55,000 people are threatened by high water.
"We are asking people to move to safer areas. We estimate there are 55,000 people affected," a spokeswoman for Mozambique's Disaster Relief Management Institute (INGC), Rita Almeida, told AFP.
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