Logistical nightmare With much of Mozambique submerged beneath muddy water, aid can only be delivered by air - a logistical nightmare. Once food can be got through, the UN's relief arm, the World Food Programme, say they only have enough food stockpiled to feed about 300,000 displaced people for three months. The UN needs helicopters to deliver more aid Unicef's Ian Macleod in the capital, Maputo, told the BBC that the immediate priority for Unicef is to try to get vaccines delivered around the country to tackle the threat of disease - and transport is urgently needed to do this. Currently, he says only three South African helicopters are delivering food aid and emergency supplies to the hundreds of thousands of people trapped by floods in Mozambique. French planes have also been ferrying material to larger towns from Maputo, but help from other nations is slow to materialise - even more than two weeks after the floods began.
Many remote areas have still to be reached.
The fear is that disease will have claimed a significant number of lives by then, in a country that was just finding its feet after being ravaged by a 15-year civil war. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites Links to other Africa stories are at the foot of the page.