Floods in Zambia, Angola, Malawi and other countries in southern Africa have affected about 120,000 people, a report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) was quoted by the Post on Tuesday as saying.

The newspaper cited the report as saying that further flooding is expected.

The report said excessive rains since the second half of last December have caused floods in a number of areas in Angola, Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Of the 120,000 people affected, some 52,700 have been temporarily displaced.

"An estimated 84 people have been killed, most of them in Angola, while a number of people are still missing. The floods have further destroyed hundreds of hectares of crop and damaged schools, public buildings, road networks, bridges and communication infrastructure," said the report.

In Zambia, Western, Central and Eastern provinces were flooded, according to the report.

The report said that the potential of outbreaks of water-borne diseases is high, particularly in Angola where the authorities are battling a growing cholera outbreak.

The OCHA said the major rivers in the region have swollen and the water levels of some of them have reached their alert thresholds or exceeded alert levels.

Source: Xinhua