Aid agencies respond to Mozambique disaster by air

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According to local aid officials and relief agencies, 90 percent of Beira, a city of 500,000 people, and its surrounding area has been destroyed (picture: flooding in Mozambique - WFP).

The aid vessel, operated by Grindrod’s Ocean Africa Container Lines, arrived in Maputo earlier today where it is loading consolidated humanitarian aid shipments prior to departing for Beira on March 22 and arriving the following day.

The Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC), a partnership that includes the Mozambican Railway Company Grindrod and DP World, has provided two warehouses for the consolidation of aid from Mozambique’s disaster management organisation (INGC), the Mozambican Red Cross, WFP and other UN organizations, COSACA and Islamic charities.

Meanwhile a B747 aircraft arrived in Maputo on March 19 carrying 51 tonnes of relief shipments from Save the Children including 8,400 tarpaulins, 3,500 terry cans, 2,500 buckets and 20 tents.

The aid agency said it has begun delivering supplies to Chimoio, a town in the west of the country that lies close to the path of the cyclone where thousands are homeless and cut off by flooding.

As part of the COSACA aid consortium with Oxfam and Care, Save the Children is working to make Chimoio a key logistics hub for the aid response.

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