The United Nations have warned that Mozambique faces a second disaster with cholera and other diseases rearing their head in the wake of ravaging from cyclone.
An aide has been appealed for a 1.8 million estimated people affected by storm and flash floods.
Addressing reporters on Tuesday, Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary-general, described Cyclone Idai as “one of the worst weather-related catastrophes in the history of Africa” after it slammed into Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.
“We fear that whole villages have been washed away in places we have yet to reach,” he said.
The cyclone rendered millions of people shelterless after it ravaged Mozambique for 10 days.
“At least I had a home before the cyclone, life was a little normal even though I didn’t have much,” Humberto Jose, a resident of the hard-hit city of Beira told Al Jazeera.
“But now I have lost everything, it’s not just me sleeping here, the streets are full of families with children,” he said.
