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Relief food airlift starts

Times of Zambia: "GOVERNMENT has started airlifting relief food to flood victims in Namwala and Itezhi-Tezhi districts.
Zambia Air Force (ZAF) with officials from the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) have set up a base at Choma Airstrip for the relief exercise.
Choma District Commissioner, Mungoni Simulilika who flagged off the exercise yesterday, said about 700 x 25 kilogramme bags of mealie meal, food supplements and other relief items would be airlifted from Choma to Namwala and Itezhi-Tezhi districts in an exercise that is expected to last about three days.
ZAF is using a fixed wing cargo plane to transport the relief food to Namwala where it was again being offloaded and dispatched by helicopters to earmarked areas."

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