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[Published: Wednesday March 20 2019]

Cyclone triggers disaster in Mozambique, Zimbabwe

 
MAPUTO/HARARE 20 Mar (ANA) - Cyclone Idai has triggered a "massive disaster" in southern Africa affecting hundreds of thousands if not millions of people, the UN has said.
 
The region has been hit by widespread flooding and devastation affecting Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.
 
Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi called it "a humanitarian disaster of great proportion".
 
He said more than 1,000 people may have been killed after the cyclone hit the country last week.
 
Idai made landfall near the port city of Beira in Sofala province on Thursday with winds of up to 177 km/h (106 mph).
 
"This is shaping up to be one of the worst weather-related disasters ever to hit the southern hemisphere," Clare Nullis, from the UN's weather agency, told the BBC on Tuesday.
 
Christian Lindmeier from the World Health Organization, said: "We need all the logistical support that we can get."
 
Mozambique's government said the confirmed death toll so far was 200, and 100,000 people needed to be urgently rescued near Beira.
 
An aerial survey of the province showed that a 50km (30 mile) stretch of land was under water after the Buzi river burst its banks, charity Save The Children said.
 
The governor of neighbouring Manica province, Manuel Rodrigues, says there is an urgent need to rescue people still trapped, the BBC's Jose Tembe reports from the capital, Maputo.(ANA)
FA/ANA/20 March 2019---------
 

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