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FILE - In this Monday March 25, 2019 file photo, Beira Mayor Daviz Simango, right, pauses from directing disaster relief operations in Beira, Mozambique. Simango, the leader of Mozambique’s opposition MDM party and the mayor of the major port city of Beira, has died in a South Africa hospital, according to local media on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. Party officials said Simango, 57, died of complications from COVID-19, diabetes and a stroke. (AP Photo/Cara Anna, file)

Influential mayor of Mozambique city dies of COVID-19

By ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press

Cyclone weakens in central Mozambique, but flooding a threat

By Associated Press - Associated Press

In this photo supplied by United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and taken Friday, Feb. 28 2020, children and a teacher walk past a United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) health centre in the Mandruzi resettlement neighbourhood, in Beira, Mozambique. One year after cyclone Idai made landfall in Mozambique and set off unprecedented climate-related disasters, 2.5 million people, almost half of them children, remain in need of humanitarian assistance. (Karel Prinsloo/Arete for UNCDF Mozambique via AP)

A year after deadly cyclone, Mozambique now braces for virus

By Associated Press - Associated Press

A woman and her baby walk past cholera vaccination campaign posters on the first day of the cholera vaccination programme at a camp for displaced survivors of cyclone Idai in Beira,Mozambique, Wednesday, April, 3, 2019. A cholera vaccination campaign is kicking off to reach nearly 900,000 cyclone survivors in Mozambique as officials rush to contain an outbreak of the disease. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Mozambique recovers from cyclone, fights threat of cholera

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

A young girl splashes water on her body at a watering point in Beira, Mozambique, Monday, April, 1, 2019. The death toll from the cyclone has reached over 500, as Mozambican and international health workers raced on Monday to contain the outbreak of cholera in the cyclone-hit city of Beira and surrounding areas, where cases of the disease has jumped to more than 1,000. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Mozambique cholera cases now above 1,400; vaccines arrive

By Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi - Associated Press

A mother bathes her baby in a bucket at a camp for displaced survivors of Cyclone Idai in Beira, Mozambique, Sunday, March, 31, 2019. Cholera cases among cyclone survivors in Mozambique have jumped to 271, authorities said. So far no cholera deaths have been confirmed, the report said. Another Lusa report said the death toll in central Mozambique from the cyclone that hit on March 14 had inched up to 501. Authorities have warned the toll is highly preliminary as flood waters recede and reveal more bodies. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Mozambique races to contain 1,000 cholera cases

By PINDAI DUBE and ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press

Chinese doctors spray chemicals to prevent the spread of cholera at a camp for displaced survivors of Cyclone Idai in Beira, Mozambique, Sunday, March, 31, 2019. Cholera cases among cyclone survivors in Mozambique have jumped to 271, authorities said. So far no cholera deaths have been confirmed, the report said. Another Lusa report said the death toll in central Mozambique from the cyclone that hit on March 14 had inched up to 501. Authorities have warned the toll is highly preliminary as flood waters recede and reveal more bodies. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

International aid helps Mozambique fight cholera in Beira

By PINDAI DUBE - Associated Press

Beira Mayor Daviz Simango, right, pauses from directing disaster relief operations in Beira, Mozambique, Monday March 25, 2019. Simango dreamed about protecting his people from climate change with much of the city being below sea level on a coastline that experts call one of the world's most vulnerable to global warming's rising waters. (AP Photo/Cara Anna)

Mozambique city fought climate change, but cyclone roared in

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March 26, 2019, photo, an elderly man lies on the ground after his bag of food was snatched from him in a scramble for bags of rice delivered by the South African Airforce helicopter at Nyamatande Village, Mozambique, following the devastating Tropical Cyclone Idai. A second week has begun with efforts to find and help some tens of thousands of people in devastated parts of southern Africa, with some hundreds dead and an unknown number of people still missing. (AP Photo/Phill Magakoe)

1st cholera cases confirmed in Mozambique’s cyclone-hit city

By NQOBILE NTSHANGASE - Associated Press

A displaced mother and child, victims of Cyclone Idai, sleep under a mosquito net at the Samora Machel Secondary School which is being used to house victims of the floods in Beira, Mozambique, Sunday March 24, 2019. The death toll has risen above 750 in the three southern African countries hit 10 days ago by the cyclone storm, as workers restore electricity, water and try to prevent outbreak of cholera, authorities said Sunday. (AP Photo/Phill Magakoe)

‘It will get worse’: Perilous times for kids hit by cyclone

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

A World Food Programme (WFP) helicopter takes off, in Beira, Mozambique, Friday, March 22, 2019. A week after Cyclone Idai hit coastal Mozambique and swept across the country to Zimbabwe, its death, destruction and flooding continues to grow in southern Africa, making it one of the most destructive natural disasters in the region's recent history. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

UN makes urgent appeal to help victims of Mozambique cyclone

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

In this photo supplied by the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre survivors of Cyclone Idai arrive by rescue boat in Beira, Mozambique, Thursday, March 21, 2019. The confirmed death toll in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi surpassed 500, with hundreds more feared dead in towns and villages that were completely submerged. (Photo -Denis Onyodi - Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre via AP)

Cyclone Idai deaths could exceed 1,000 as need for aid grows

By Cara Anna and Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press