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    480 homeless after heavy rains in Mozambique

    MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Nearly 500 people were flooded out of their homes in Mozambique's capital after a tropical depression brought torrential rain and high winds, city officials said Wednesday.

    In neighboring South Africa, the flagship Kruger National Park was affected during the busy summer season.

    The homeless in Mozambique were being sheltered in schools, churches and even on sports fields, city officials said. In the southern Inhambane province, officials said roofs were blown off 71 classrooms, seven teachers' homes and two offices at a school. In neighboring Gaza province, 40 small homes were swept away and 1,000 goats were killed.

    Mozambique's National Operational Emergency Center said tropical depression Dando had now dissipated after two days of destroying homes, downing power lines and causing other damage in Maputo and other southern areas. No deaths were reported.

    In South Africa, helicopters were used to evacuate guests from one private lodge and a trail in Kruger, which borders Mozambique, park officials said in a statement Wednesday. Flooding has made some roads and low-lying bridges inaccessible and several camping sites and a picnic area were closed, they added.

     

    15 comments

    • ALEXX  •  4 mths ago
      Be strong. This is why your people have been threw the worst the world has had to offer and you still persevere. Cradle of mankind this too will pass.
    • dozer  •  Wallingford, Connecticut  •  4 mths ago
      care to guess how many homeless there are in this country?
      • BillsCatz 4 mths ago
        Probably not many in Wallingford, CT.
      • dozer 4 mths ago
        even for you, that's a stupid answer bill
    • alaskancritter  •  4 mths ago
      So what, it's only africa. Let's start a charity to sterilize them all!
      • ALEXX 4 mths ago
        but your mother if from there..it's too late your already here. If only abortion was retroactive.
    • j  •  Owensboro, Kentucky  •  4 mths ago
      What is sad is the amount of money the US will send there, that will stolen
    • Mr. Toby  •  4 mths ago
      Move them into the White House with the others
    • Yahoo user  •  4 mths ago
      Sorry, the US is all tapped out. You're on your own.
    • American with a job who p ...  •  Chicago, Illinois  •  4 mths ago
      Talk about a non-story. Schools lost their tin roofs, 1000 dead goats. Can we really be this starved for "news"?
      • ALEXX 4 mths ago
        it would be news if it was you bozo
    • Uncletim  •  Dallas, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      1000 goats killed. I guess that means no more sex. The women smell too bad. LMAO!!!!!!
    • skip coys  •  4 mths ago
      lets get some cardboard boxes and sleep in them to see how it is and then donate the boxes to the homeless there...remember when that group did that in America?
    • VIET VET 942  •  4 mths ago
      Lets get together and send them some blue tarps and shopping baskets. It seems to work well for the homeless here.
    • dean  •  St Louis, Missouri  •  4 mths ago
      this is so sad.....
    • BillsCatz  •  4 mths ago
      Geeze, that's too bad, shiat happens, not our problem. The world economy is on it's second time around the bowl and about to head down the drain. Didn't hear about relief aid from Mozambique for New Orleans or St Louis. Send 'em a sympathy card and a dozen rafts, not our problem anymore.
    • David Baker  •  Sacramento, California  •  4 mths ago
      Though we should feel some twinge of pity for these people, America has hundreds of thousands of 'beneficiaries' of Obama's "Miracle of Hope" dealing with freezing conditions in most states (Including California, home of Moonbeam's "Miracle of Lawsuits"..) who are without abodes. Perhaps Americans should be apprised of these stories, and endeavor to solve our own problems.
    • Herbert West  •  4 mths ago
      Evolution skipped the savages in Africa. When you build your hut out of dung and sticks a little rain will ruin your world every time.

      Instead of sending these morons a dime in aid we need to translate the "Three Little Pigs" into their native dialect and play it on recorders through loudspeakers in armored trucks which will roam the countryside.
    • David Baker  •  Sacramento, California  •  4 mths ago
      Michael Scott, you forgot Paris Hilton. There was a radical concept developed to end world hunger which entailed the heiress wearing edible underwear...
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