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As the toll surged from the region’s biggest storm in years, the World Health Organization announced plans to tackle an emerging threat to survivors from malaria and cholera.

“Yesterday we had counted 15,000 people that still need rescue today — 15,000 people who are in bad shape. They are alive, we are communicating with them, delivering food, but we need to rescue them and take them out,” he told reporters.“Our priority now is to make sure we take food, shelter and medicine to the people that are isolated in small islands or in big islands and villages,” Correia said at Beira airport, the humanitarian relief coordination hub.

World Food Programme spokesman Herve Verhoosel said the number of people affected in Mozambique was 600,000, but warned: “That number will definitely go up.”Pall bearers waded through flood waters carrying a black coffin containing the remains of Tomas Joaquim Chimukme, who died after his house collapsed on him in Beira.

 

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When extreme weather is going to hit the US,The Caribbean people are warned and informed on time to evacuate so as to save lives,did the African leaders of the affected countries deliberately not evacuate their citizens on time so they can get aid which they are going to squander

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