Over one million people are in need of emergency assistance in the aftermath of cyclone Idai in Mozambique
Amelia Zinarimwe has been toiling away on her land for the last three decades. Before Cyclone Idai made its disastrous landfall and destroyed her home, she was getting ready to harvest her maize crop. But before she could put hands on the crops, the flood came, robbing months of hard work.
"I am suffering, I don't have any food or a place to sleep. Not even seedlings to replant," said Zinarimwe."80 percent of the people in this region are relying on these crops or fishery which have been basically wiped out," said Mathieu Leonard, a field coordinator with the Red Cross.
"There are a lot of challenges. Logistics is a very difficult issue. There are still many areas that can only be accessible by helicopter and not even a landing land. So the roads are being cleared since the disaster happened, but there are still a lot of places that cannot really be accessible," said Leonard.
In places like Buzi, one of the worst-affected areas, aid has begun arriving. Thousands of local residents were evacuated earlier to makeshift camps in Biera. Their land now lies idle, with low lying rice fields destroyed.
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