2001 Photo Contest, General News, 2nd prize
Photographer

Karel Prinsloo

The Associated Press for Sunday Times

02 March, 2000

People fight to control the crowd as relief food is handed out in a camp for the internally displaced. In January a cyclone hit Mozambique, causing water levels to rise six meters in 24 hours. Continuing rains led to a flood that was the worst to hit the area in thirty years. A quarter of arable land was lost, and damage was estimated at US $100 million. Hundreds of people who had taken refuge on a high bridge near Xai-Xai, north of the capital Maputo, were stranded when waters rose overnight.

About the photographer

Karel Prinsloo

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