In mid January 2015, a three day period of excessive rain brought unprecedented floods to the small poor African country of Mala
In mid January 2015, a three day period of excessive rain brought unprecedented floods to the small poor African country of Malawi. It displaced nearly quarter of a million people, devastated 64,000 hectares of land, and killed several hundred people. This shot shows farmland buried under flood debris in Chikwawa, with a farmer standing on his lost farmland.
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