US team seeks to provide water, hygiene in cyclone-hit Mozambique

The United States said Thursday it had sent a team to cyclone-hit Mozambique to provide safe drinking water and other necessities after the region's biggest storm in decades.Aimee Lauer, who is heading the response for the US Agency for International Development, said that an initially light 15-member team was en route to Mozambique with a potential expansion planned once the scope of the disaster becomes clear.The group will provide chlorine tabs for safe water and hygiene kits to help stem the