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The warning signs couldn’t be clearer that we need to act now to prevent millions dying from starvation (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP)

AVENIDA EDUARDO MONDLANE

‘I have to choose between starvation or dying of disease’

Cyclone Idai has caused severe damage and left people without members of their families, shelter or food to eat

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A woman dries rice salvaged as flood waters begin to recede in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai, in Buzi near Beira, Mozambique. (Reuters/Mike Hutchings)

AVENIDA DE MOCAMBIQUE

Despatch from Beira: “I have to choose between starvation or dying of disease”

Some people in Beira are so hungry that they are scooping rotting rice from the flood waters

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esperate: Five days after the disaster and unable to wait longer for food, hungry people looted a warehouse and carried out bags of rice on which China Aid was stamped. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP)

Beira, one week after the apocalypse

Mozambique’s second city was destroyed by Cyclone Idai, and the mayor claims that aid is being politicised. Beira will never be the same

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