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Case Study: Mozambique Floods of 2000.  

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Case Study: Mozambique Floods of 2000 Introduction Mozambique stretches for 2500km on the south-eastern coast of Africa, bordered by Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and South Africa and Swaziland to the south-west (Picture 1). The island of Madagascar lies directly east, 400km across the Mozambique Channel. The coastal plain, as wide as 200km in the south, rises to mountains and plateaux in the north and west. Two of Southern Africa's longest rivers, the Zambezi and the Limpopo, flow through the country. Other major rivers are the Save and the Rovuma (which forms the northern border with Tanzania). Massive Lake Malawi (also called Lake Nyasa) forms part of the border with Malawi. Moving westward, the land changes abruptly from a narrow, palm-studded strip of beach along the coast to a broad belt of savannah and woodland, then forested mountains. Trees include hardwoods, acacia and...

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