coast unleashing hurricane-force wind and rain that flooded swathes of the poor country before battering eastern Zimbabwe killing 705 people across the two nations.
The World Food Programme said Friday that the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Mozambique is on a par with the situation in Yemen and Syria which are both in the grip of civil wars. “The government is already setting up a cholera treatment centre to mitigate cholera. We should not be frightened when cholera issues arise,” added Correia, describing efforts to control the emerging humanitarian crisis.
“Houses are completely destroyed, and some people don’t have money to rebuild their businesses and many businesses are going to fail,” he told AFP. The Ponta Gea Catholic Cathedral in Beira was miraculously undamaged by the storm while the church next door was levelled.