Let’s always remember Mozambique, in Southern Africa, in our prayers, fam!
Survivors of a powerful cyclone that pummelled the country have now started receiving emergency medicine, food and tents as floodwaters receded on Tuesday.
The emergency medicine follows a Red Cross warning of “a ticking bomb” of disease in the storm-struck region.
Cyclone Idai smashed into Mozambique’s coast, unleashing hurricane-force wind and rain that flooded swathes of the poor country before battering eastern Zimbabwe — killing more than 700 people across the two nations.
The head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Elhadj As Sy said Monday “we are sitting on a ticking bomb” as he called for renewed efforts to address the worsening health situation.
As logistical conditions improved and roads to affected communities have been reconnected, the full scale of the humanitarian crisis has been revealed for the first time since disaster hit on March 15.
More than two million people have been affected in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi where the storm started as a tropical depression causing deadly flooding which displaced nearly a million people.