Air routes and roads to rural northern Mozambique impassable after torrential rains since Sunday after the cyclone hit the country and the Comoros on Thursday
UN reports conditions were too dangerous for the next flights to take off on the second day of efforts to reach those cut off in remote areasResidents take shelter under a house roof in the Paquite district of Pemba on April 29, 2019, as Cyclone Kenneth hit northern Mozambique, killing 38 and destroying thousands of homes.
“Unfortunately the weather conditions are changing too fast and threatening the operation,” said Saviano Abreu, a spokesperson for the U Ns Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs . Four people died in the Comoros, the U N said. Mozambique’s National Institute of Disaster Management said its death toll stood at 38 on Monday — up from an earlier estimate of five — and just over 168,000 people had been affected.
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