Mozambique

Flooding of the Incomati and Limpopo Basins in mid to late January 2013 affected Gaza Province in southern Mozambique, in particular the districts of Chokwe and Guija. As at 28 January 2013, around 40 people have died and an estimated 250,000 people are affected out of a total population of 339,800 living in these areas, including 150,000 people displaced to temporary shelters - triple Friday's number - as rescue operations and evacuations continue....

Lesotho has experienced a more than 70% drop in domestic agricultural production that has put more than 725,000 people, over a third of the population, at serious risk of food insecurity. The sharp reduction in agricultural yields for 2011/2012, due to a series of flooding, late rains and early frost, has reduced domestic production to only 32% of the national average cereal harvest of the last 10 years.
The late onset of rains in the planting season (October-December...