President Peter Mutharika has described the magnitude of this year's flash floods as a disaster that has never happened before affecting a record fifteen districts in the history of the country.

Mutharika said the extent of the damage caused by the flash floods across the country was so severe where in some cases it was leaving scores of people dead while in some instances washed away crop fields and livestock.

The Malawian leader said the development was worry some since many people were rendered homeless and huge hectares of crop fields were washed away.

Mandere, therefore, to consider providing the affected households with early maturing maize varieties as well as other crops like cassava and sweet potato cuttings to plant as the rains were just in their initial stages.

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