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Cyclone Idai devastates Mozambique
Aid workers warn that four-hundred thousand people have been made homeless
Aid workers in Mozambique are warning that four-hundred thousand people have been made homeless by a cyclone that hit last week. Mozambique's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Filipe Chidumo, described the cyclone as a tragedy of "biblical proportions".
Also in the programme: US-backed Kurdish forces say they have captured the last encampment of the Islamic State Group in Syria; and the president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, is to step down.
(Photo: people on the roof of a building surrounded by flooding in an area affected by Cyclone Idai in Beira; Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
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