Aid finally reaches Zim ‘death’ villages

SURPRISED members of a Cyclone Idai-hit community in Zimbabwe paused from retrieving and burying their dead to welcome the first humanitarian aid from the outside world as it arrived nearly two weeks after the storm.

Survivors in Machongwe village rushed for aid this week, 12 days after the cyclone hit, putting aside a search that is now less about finding survivors and more about properly burying bodies.

The village’s commercial centre was entirely swept away.

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