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		</div><p>Mozambique’s government has urged many people to immediately seek higher ground after at least five people were killed in Cyclone Kenneth.</p>
<p>Authorities fear flooding and mudslides in the days ahead after heavy rain lashed the region.</p>
<p>Nearly 700,000 people could be at risk, with many left exposed and hungry as waters rise.</p>
<p>Mozambique’s disaster management agency said one person had died in Pemba city and another in hard-hit Macomia district, while residents on Ibo island said two people died there.</p>
<p>Details on the fifth death were not immediately available.</p>
<p>Nearly 3,500 homes in parts of the country’s northernmost Cabo Delgado province were partially or fully destroyed, with electricity cut, some roads blocked and at least one key bridge collapsed.</p>
<p>Some schools and health centres were damaged.</p>
<p><em>“There’s a very intense strip of destruction where the wind first made impact in coastal districts,”</em> Nicholas Finney, response team leader with the aid group Save the Children, told The Associated Press after visiting Macomia district.</p>
<p>The team found people in shock in a region where a cyclone had never been recorded in the modern age.</p>
<p>Terrified children and traumatised parents <em>“face a huge task to start to rebuild”</em>, he said.</p>
<p>Rain is forecast over the next several days and Mozambique’s meteorological authority said the storm could potentially move back out to sea and intensify again, Mr Finney added.</p>
<p><em>“It doesn’t look good, quite honestly,”</em> he said of the risk of flooding.</p>
<p>As water levels rose, Mozambique authorities asked residents of Mecufi and Chiure districts and parts of Macomia and Muidumbe districts to immediately seek higher ground.</p>
<p>Some rivers in the region have burst their banks in the past, notably in 2000.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Cyclone Kenneth has made landfall in Mozambique just over a month after Cyclone Idai ripped through the country. We’re still on the ground, providing urgent health care to children like two year old Simon. <a href="https://t.co/EXh4Xyu4ZV">https://t.co/EXh4Xyu4ZV</a> <a href="https://t.co/hGQLNv4D3y">pic.twitter.com/hGQLNv4D3y</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Save the Children UK (@savechildrenuk) <a href="https://twitter.com/savechildrenuk/status/1121734870278053889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Cyclone Kenneth arrived late on Thursday, just six weeks after Cyclone Idai ripped into central Mozambique and killed more than 600 people.</p>
<p>This was the first time in recorded history that the southern African nation has been hit by two cyclones in one season, again raising concerns about climate change.</p>
<p>The remnants of Kenneth, which packed the power of a Category 4 hurricane, could dump twice as much rain as Idai did last month, the UN World Program has said.</p>
<p>Some forecasts warned of as much as nine inches of torrential rain, or about a quarter of the average annual rainfall for the region.</p>
<p>The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies reported heavy damage to Cabo Delgado province, with the communities of Macomia, Quissanga and Mocimboa da Praia of highest concern.</p>
<p>Communications remained challenging in some areas as authorities and aid groups scrambled to assess the damage, especially in more far-flung communities in the largely rural region.</p>
<p><em>“The situation wasn’t worse thanks to awareness-raising work by local authorities,”</em> Mozambique’s disaster management agency said.</p>
<p>People left homeless tried to patch together shelters from the rain.</p>
<p><em>“I’m looking for someone to lend me a porch so I can clean it up and stay with my family,”</em> one Macomia resident, Wild Eusebio, told the Portuguese news agency Lusa.</p>
<p>Another family of 13 people, including eight children, was living in an improvised plastic tent, the report said.</p>
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