A week after Tropical Cyclone IDAI "massacred" the center of Mozambique, there are still people under siege in the trees and on the roofs of houses in the provinces of Sofala and Manica.
"The affected area is much larger than we thought, there are almost 125 kilometers of flood areas" said Saviano Abreu of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The location of 92 more corpses raised the number of fatalities to 294.
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