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 COCORICO, Mozambique (AP) - Relief workers used dugout canoes, motorboats and a U.N. helicopter to rescue villagers from rising floodwaters Wednesday, but others refused to go because it would mean leaving their crops and livestock.
Torrential rains have deluged southern Africa since December, killing more than 100 people, including 40 in Mozambique. The floods have destroyed thousands of acres of crops, washed out roads and bridges and uprooted utility poles.
Despite memories of floods that killed 800 Mozambicans six years ago, some resisted evacuation orders, even as waters submerged fields within sight of their huts and the only visible remains of neighbors' homes were the tops of thatched roofs peeking above newly formed lakes.
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