Authorities say 110,000 homes were destroyed when the powerful storm made landfall last week. In Mayotte, the death toll is expected to rise dramatically.
Mozambique has revised up its death toll to 94 as the clean up from Tropical Cyclone Chido continues.
The cyclone reached category four strength as it left a trail of destruction in the west Indian Ocean last week.Mozambique authorities have revised up the country's death toll from Tropical Cyclone Chido, a week after the storm tore a path of destruction through the west Indian Ocean.The cyclone, which devastated the French island territory of Mayotte before hitting the African mainland, also destroyed 110,000 homes in Mozambique, officials said.
The storm hit as the southern African nation reels from a deadly post-election crisis pitting the country's party against an opposition crying foul over alleged electoral fraud. Seven days after the cyclone hit the French territory of Mayotte, the country's interior ministry was still reporting 35 deaths and 2,500 injuries on the archipelago.The Bureau of Meterology is expected an average season for tropical cyclone's for WA's North West, but that still means five cyclone are expected.
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