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Floods destroy crops in Benguela

    JOHANNESBURG

    Floods caused by heavy rains in west Angola’s Benguela province have destroyed 2,000 ha of farm land after the Coporolo River burst its banks in recent days, official Angolan news reports said on Monday.

    Manuel Monteiro, chairman of the Benguela Farmers’ Association, said he had expected a yield of about 12,000 mt of maize, but it had all been lost. Although no lives had been lost in the flooding, officials expressed concern for the plight of an estimated 14,000 people displaced by the war now camped in the lower Coporolo region.

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