Aftermath of Cylone Idai in southern Africa

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Flooding caused by the Tropical Cyclone Idai weather system since early March has affected nearly three million people in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, according to the UN humanitarian agency OCHA
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Hardest-hit areas

200km 125 miles

ZAMBIA
Lilongwe
Chimoio
ZIMBABWE Harare Mar 16
Lake Malawi
MOZAMBIQUE 
INDIAN OCEAN
TANZANIA
MALAWI
Blantyre Zomba
Quelimane
Nampula
Chipinge 
Chimanimani
Maputo
Mar 11 Tropical storm becomes cyclone
Path of cyclone
SOUTH AFRICA
SWAZILAND
MADAGASCAR
Mozambique Channel

Beira: Red Cross estimates 90 percent of city – home to 500,000 people – has been damaged or destroyed
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PEOPLE IMPACTED (estimates as of Mar 26)

Mozambique    
1.85 million people affected, 129,000 people displaced, 450 killed

Malawi 869,000 people affected, 87,000 people displaced, 60 killed

Zimbabwe 270,000 people affected, 4,500 people displaced, 260 killed

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Sources: UN OCHA, Associated Press
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