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People collect metal sheets from a damaged supermarket to re-build their destroyed houses.Cyclone IdaiThe World Food Programme has warned that the situation is likely to deteriorate and that people are still in need of rescue from rooftops after the devastating storm swept throughThe UN agency has appealed for millions of dollars in funding as it aims to reach 600 000 people in the next four weeks.

Extensive damage has been caused to major roads and bridges which are now impassable, while power networks have been severed and are unlikely to be restored for several weeks. “Let’s not forget that in the port for the moment, you have no infrastructure. That’s the same at the airport. For example, our plane, when our plane arrived, there was nothing to take out of the plane all the food. That has been done manually by people and people need to take box by box out of the plane, so we are not talking about a few hundred kilogrammes, we are talking about a quite a few megatonnes.

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Over 200 dead in Mozambique in the wake of Cyclone Idai - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.The number of people killed in a powerful cyclone and flooding in Mozambique has risen above 200, more than doubling the country's death toll from a storm that could rank as one of the worst weather-related disasters in the southern hemisphere.
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