Manhiça, Mozambique, Feb 6, 2026 (AFP) - 'I wanted to die': survivors recount Mozambique flood terror

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Erica Raimundo Mimbir delivered her first baby on a school desk, the only dry place she found after days marooned in her flooded home in southern Mozambique. "I wanted to die because of the labour pains and the conditions," the 17-year-old told AFP in a village in the province of Maputo. Evacuated by boat the next day, Mimbir took shelter with relatives, among some 650,000 Mozambicans the United Nations says have been affected by torrential rains......

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