WFP scales up food aid for flood-hit communities in Mozambique

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said it is scaling up to deliver life-saving food assistance to reach 450,000 people affected by the country's worst flooding in decades -- just months after Mozambicans recovered from the worst drought in its recent history.

Severe flooding in central and southern Mozambique has impacted nearly 700,000 people, forcing over 100,000 into temporary accommodation centres, submerging farmland areas and cutting off hundreds of thousands of families from food and critical services.

Around 1,500 kilometres of roads are now impassable, disrupting key supply routes, and isolating vulnerable groups.    WFP is using specialized amphibious vehicles, boats, heavy-duty trucks, fixed-wing aircraft, and helicopters, to reach the impacted communities with food and nutrition assistance.