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CAMPAIGNERS have called on Western countries to end their exploitation of Mozambique as the death toll caused by last Friday’s Cyclone Idai is expected to rise.
An aerial view from a helicopter of flooding in Beira, Mozambique. The Red Cross says that as much as 90 percent of Mozambique's central port city of Beira has been damaged or destroyed by tropical Cyclone Idai
Described by the World Meteorological Organisation as “the worst weather disaster in the southern hemisphere,” the storm has already killed over 400 and displaced hundreds of thousands in the former Portuguese colony.
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