Mozambican Refugee Tide Overwhelms Malawi; Savage Civil War Drives Hundreds of Thousands to Tiny African Nation

Every morning, just after sunup, a weary cluster of about 100 Mozambicans limps out of the bush and into this teeming refugee camp. Barefoot and hollow-eyed, many naked or clad only in filthy rags, they stand shivering in the cool damp. Except for the odd Bible or fishing net or their own small children, they have no possessions. Only stories-of rape and murder in the maelstrom of Mozambique's civil war.

"I am very glad to be here alive," said 20-year-old Marcelino Kamangira, who with 17 family members and most of his village trekked for five nights over snake- and…