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Article: Floods affect nearly 13 percent of Zambia's total population
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- March 26, 2007
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Floods affect nearly 13 percent of Zambia's total population
LUSAKA, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Of Zambia's total population of 11
million, 1.4 million, or nearly 13 percent, have been affected by
floods, Zambian Vice President Rupiah Banda said here Monday.
The floods have hit 41 districts of the southern African country's
72 districts, Banda said when he accepted relief food, cooking oil,
salt and blanket donated by Konkola Copper Mines and the ...