Aid agencies struggle to rescue Mozambique cyclone victims

world News March 22, 2019

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Adrien BARBIER and Joaquim NHAMIRRE | AFP

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Fri, 2019-03-22 05:38

BEIRA, Mozambique: Aid workers raced on Wednesday to help survivors and meet spiralling humanitarian needs in three southern African countries battered by the region’s worst storm in years.
Five days after tropical cyclone Idai cut a swathe through Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, the confirmed death toll stood at more than 300 and hundreds of thousands of lives were at risk, officials said.
Mozambique, where the monster storm made landfall early last Friday, is reeling.