Nearly 60 people have died since the start of April in heavy rains and flooding that has hit several parts of Tanzania, the government said.
The coastal region of the East African country is one of the worst affected, with floods damaging thousands of farms there, Mobhare Matinyi, the government spokesperson, said in a statement on Sunday.
"Serious flood effects are experienced in the coast region where 11 people have so far died," Mr Matinyi added.
He said, so far, 58 deaths have been recorded across the country from the flooding.
Last Friday, eight schoolchildren died after their bus plunged into a flooded gorge in the north of the country.
April marks the peak of Tanzania's rainy season. This year has seen the heaviest rainfall in recent years.
The deluge has also led to the deaths of at least 13 people and displaced some 15,000 in neighbouring Kenya, the UN said.
The El Niño weather phenomenon has worsened this year's seasonal rains, weather experts said.
Flooding in Tanzania has killed 155 people and left at least 236 injured, the country's Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said on Thursday.
More than 10,000 houses have been damaged and upwards of 200,000 people have been affected, Majaliwa told the Tanzanian parliament in the capital Dodoma.
The prime minister added that "the heavy El Nino rains, accompanied by strong winds and flooding and landslides in various parts of the country, have caused adverse effects."
"These include deaths, damage to crops, homes property, infrastructure like roads, bridges and railways," Majaliwa said.
The flooding has also affected Kenya, which shares a border with Tanzania in East Africa.
As of Tuesday, at least 32 people had died from the flooding in Kenya, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHR).
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