Flooding starts in Mozambique after cyclone, death toll rises to five

"Worryingly, it is still raining heavily," said Daw Mohammed, CARE's director of humanitarian operations, who is in the port city of Pemba, the provincial capital.The death toll from Kenneth - marking the most powerful storm to ever strike Mozambique's northern coast - rose to five on Saturday, a spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said, citing the government.

UNICEF said an additional 368,000 children were now at risk in Mozambique, one of the world's poorest countries and already struggling to cope with the impact of Idai, which left an estimated 1.85 million people in the country in need. "The soil is saturated with rain and the rivers are already swollen, so the emergency is likely to get worse from flooding in the next few days," he said in a statement.

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