Authorities in Mozambique say 446 people have died after Cyclone Idai hit southern Africa more than a week ago.
Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, deputy director of the UN Humanitarian operation, called the scale of the devastation ‘extraordinary’, as the land had already been saturated by earlier rains before the cyclone hit.People are staying in shelters after their homes were destroyed Unicef’s executive director Henrietta Fore said it is a ‘race against time to help and protect children’ affected.
‘Three thousand people who are living in a school that has 15 classrooms and six – only six – toilets. You can imagine how much we are sitting on a water and sanitation ticking bomb.’
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