Thousands flee Zambezi  flooding
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Some 45,000 people in Mozambique have been displaced by flooding in the Zambezi valley, officials say.
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Rains battered portions of flood-ravaged southern Africa Thursday, killing at least three people in Malawi and forcing Zambia to declare a national disaster.
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BEIRA, Mozambique  - Heavy rains from a cyclone sparked more flooding in Mozambique on Sunday, worsening a humanitarian crisis that has already killed 45 people and forced 140,000 from their homes.
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An intense rainfall has forced evacuations, threatened water supplies and caused expensive flood damage in parts of Britain, which struggled to recover Sunday.
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Emergency services evacuated hundreds of  homes in the university city of Oxford on Wednesday as the  River Thames broke its banks and Britain grappled with its  worst floods in 60 years.
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Thousands of people flee fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo amid fears of a humanitarian crisis.
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More rain could be "catastrophic" for flood-hit southern Africa, the Red Cross warns.
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TEWKESBURY, England -- Emergency workers rescued hundreds of trapped people yesterday as water swallowed swaths of central England in the worst flooding to hit the country for 60 years. Officials said some rivers were still rising, with the western section of the rain-swollen River Thames on the verge of bursting its banks.
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Thousands of Mozambicans living near main rivers are urged to leave their homes, as waters rise after heavy rain.
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Fears mounted on Monday that downpours which have killed dozens in Africa, uprooted hundreds of thousands and devastated crops could continue past the end of the rainy season and hit areas that have so far escaped floods.
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Fears mounted on Monday that downpours  which have killed dozens in Africa, uprooted hundreds of  thousands and devastated crops could continue past the end of  the rainy season and hit areas that have so far escaped floods.
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Mozambique will forcibly evacuate 10,000 people who have defied calls to leave areas at risk of flooding, the government said on Sunday as an advancing tropical cyclone threatened to swell floodwaters.
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Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Diogo has warned that torrential rains could wreak more havoc than heavy floods in 2001 when nearly 1,000 people died, as authorities urged people to start evacuating.
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LONDON -- Heavy rain caused flash floods in seaside communities in southwestern England yesterday, and dozens of people were rescued from cars, trees, and rooftops by emergency helicopters and lifeboats, officials said. About 50 people were trapped in their vehicles by the flood waters, with some managing to free themselves, officials said. The Coast Guard said 30 empty vehicles were ...
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Emergency workers rescued hundreds of trapped people Monday as water swallowed swaths of central England in the worst flooding to hit the country for 60 years. Officials said some rivers were still rising, with the western section of the rain-swollen River Thames on the verge of bursting its banks.
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Mozambique said on Sunday it would forcibly evacuate 10,000 people who have defied government calls to leave areas at risk of flooding along the Zambezi valley in the country's central regions.
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Heavy flooding forces 60,000 people to be evacuated in Mozambique, while 100,000 others are at risk.