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Donors pledge flood aid

Mozambique Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi said this week the international community had pledged an estimated US $2 million by 15 March to help alleviate damage caused by heavy rains and floods, the Mozambique news agency reported. It quoted Mocumbi as saying most of the aid had so far been allocated to assist flood victims, but that the government had originally appealed for US $12.4 million of which an estimated US $4 million alone was needed for the repair of roads and bridges. In recent months, Mozambique has been subjected to torrential rains and subsequent flooding. The worst-hit areas have been the southern province of Inhambane and Gaza and Sofala in the central region. On 10 March, Japan and Mozambique signed an aid agreement in which Japan promised to provide an estimated US $19.4 million as part of a bilateral aid package. The news agency said some of the money would be used to help feed flood victims.

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