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2019-03-21 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Mozambique, Zimbabwe cyclone deaths exceed 300 as UN boosts aid
[DAWN] The corpse count from a cyclone that smashed into Mozambique and Zim-bob-we rose to more than 300 as rescuers raced against the clock to help survivors and the United Nations
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led the charge to provide aid.

"We already have more than 200 dead, and nearly 350,000 people are at risk," Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi announced on Tuesday, while the government in Zim-bob-we said around 100 people had died but the toll could be three times that figure.

The UN, meanwhile, said that one of the worst storms to hit southern Africa in decades had also unleashed a humanitarian crisis in Malawi, affecting nearly a million people and forcing more than 80,000 from their homes.

Four days after Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall, emergency teams in central Mozambique fanned out in boats and helicopters, seeking to pluck survivors from roofs and treetops in an inland sea of floodwater, sometimes in the dead of night.

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