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Floods displace 200 households in Chikwawa

Over 200 households in some parts of Chikwawa District have been displaced by floods due to heavy rains on January 2 2015.

According to a report released by the Chikwawa district commissioner’s (DC) office, areas affected by the floods are under Paramount Chief Lundu and include group village heads Mafale, Sekeni and Chipakuza.

The report also stated that people in Group Village Head Medrum under Traditional Authority (T/A) Mulilima were affected as well as those under GVH M’bande, T/A Maseya.

“Some members of the District Civil Protection Committee [DCPC] went for assessment and verification from the same day [2nd January, 2015 to 3rd January 2015] as soon as the incidence had occurred and reported by the relevant Area Civil Protection Committee [ACPCs].

“This is now when it was confirmed that 201 households were indeed directly affected and need to be secured from this calamity,” stated the report.

The flooding rivers, according to the report, were Nkombezi and Likhubula in Paramount Chief Lundu and T/A Mulilima respectively.

Chikwawa DC Alex Mdooko and the district’s assistant disaster risk management officer Francis Kadzokoya, who co-signed the report, have since called for assistance in form of tarpaulins/household tents, plastic pails, plastic plates, plastics cups, maize, beans, blankets and salt.

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