A cyclone devastated Mozambique and think that there could be more than 1,000 dead

Floods, hundreds of missing people and thousands of displaced people. The Cyclone of Idai Mozambique, and the country's president, Filipe Nyusi, felt that the rest of the victims could exceed 1,000 deadafter the storm swept the central provinces.

"For the moment, we have officially registered 84 dead, but when we flew over the region (…) this morning to understand what is happening, everything indicates that we could save over 1,000 deaths"he said in a message to the country." It's a genuine humanitarian disaster", condemned, estimating that" more than 100,000 people are in danger ".

The winds of extreme cyclone violence and torrential rains badped the center of Mozambique Thursday night, then move to neighboring Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe, the latest death toll was 98 dead and 217 missing, according to the Ministry of Information.

In Mozambique, the damage to Beira, a city of half a million inhabitants, is "huge and terrifying", warned the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC ), who participates in the first relief operations.

The "90% of Beira and its surroundings have been damaged or destroyed"he added in a statement.

"The communications are completely interrupted and the roads are destroyed," said Jamie LeSueur of the International Federation in Beira, about the complications of the rescue operations.

"The hurricane was extremely violent and affected everyone. Families destroyed, houses, there are no words to describe it"said Mohamed Badate, 24, an employee of a garment factory devastated.

In the region, nearly 10,000 people are affected, 873 houses were destroyed as well as 24 hospitals and 267 clbadrooms they were inundated, according to Monday's badessment of the Mozambican Disaster Management Authority.

In both countries, however, the authorities fear that the balance will deteriorate as rescue operations progress. In Mozambique, "several dams ceded or having reached their maximum level", Warned Emma Beaty about the non-governmental organization Oxfam.

Zimbabwe has never suffered from "the destruction of infrastructure of this level," said Transport Minister Joel Biggie Matiza. Given the scale of the damage, President Emmerson Mnangagwa returned hastily Monday after a trip to the United Arab Emirates.

"Our nation is deeply in mourning," he said. "They tell me that it has not stopped and that the army is doing everything possible to reach the affected families," he said.

Heavy rains prior to the cyclone had already killed at least 122 people in Mozambique and Malawi, who have not suffered the devastation of Idaï.