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People try to escape floods in Mozambique
POOL / ODD ANDERSEN / AP

"It seems the world has no conscience when it comes to human life."

GRACHA MACHEL, former First Lady of Mozambique, criticizing foreign governments for their slow response to floods that submerged the southeast African nation in February and March, killing thousands and displacing up to a million people.

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