Erica Raimundo Mimbir delivered her first baby on a school desk, the only dry place she found after days marooned in her flooded home in southern Mozambique.

"I wanted to die because of the labour pains and the conditions," the 17-year-old told AFP in a village in the province of Maputo.

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