The World Food Programme (WFP) has begun operations to provide food aid to at least 1.25 million people affected by Cyclone Idai, which has killed more than 200 people in eastern Africa.
The current estimate of aid recipients is based on surveys of Malawi and Mozambique, the UN agency said Sunday in Geneva.
Thousands more are potentially impacted by events in Zimbabwe, where assessments are ongoing.
According to Zimbabwe officials, 65 people have been killed in the Cyclone with about 100 who are still missing.
Across the affected countries, communities are cut off from supply routes, agricultural land has been destroyed
Even before Idai made landfall, heavy rain and floods had claimed 66 lives in Mozambique and more than 50 in the south of neighbouring Malawi since early March.
MOSCOW, (Sputnik)
