Mozambique prepares for possible rise in diseases after Cyclone Idai hit southern Africa
More than two million people have been affected in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi where the storm started as a tropical depression causing flooding which killed 60 and displaced nearly a million people. The International Committee of the Red Cross said it had recorded two cases of cholera so far but the UN was unable to confirm the reports."We will be able to bring more help to families living in this affected area," he said.
"The people don't know what to do because they lost their houses, they have no food, they don't know where to sleep –– this brings sadness and anxiety," said Father Pedro who conducted a mass in darkness late on Saturday.Much of the area hit by the cyclone remains disconnected from electricity supplies, complicating rescue efforts at nightfall.
As many as 109,000 people are living in shelters across central Mozambique, many of them located in and around Beira. One survivor was six-year-old Elena Joaquin who clutched a coconut as she sat surrounded by pots and pans at a shelter in Buzi, southwest of Beria, where she had sought refuge along with her parents.
But life had slowly begun to return to normal in central Beira where traffic was flowing more than in recent days and business were resuming trade.
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