The Mozambican town of Buzi has been virtually cut off from the outside world after Cyclone Idai hit in March and washed away the major roads and bridges into the region. VOA’s Brian Padden reports that humanitarian organizations have to airlift or ship by boat needed supplies.

Mozambique kicked off its campaign to vaccinate nearly 900,000 survivors of Cyclone Idai against cholera, in Beira, Wednesday. Beira's Mayor Daviz Simango was among those who swallowed the oral vaccine. Overall the campaign aims to vaccinate some 884,000 people in Beira, Dondo, Nhamatanda and Buzi.

Mozambique's government and aid agencies have launched a cholera vaccination campaign Wednesday in the port city of Beira to treat nearly a million people affected by Cyclone Idai. The health officials are in a rush to stop the disease that has claimed the lives of at least two people.

A Zimbabwean based in Ohio, United States, has raised nearly $100,000 through a crowd-funding application, Gofundme, after initially setting a target of only $10,000, for people hard-hit by Cyclone Idai which devastated the country’s Manicaland region and some parts of Masvingo province.

As the water levels subside in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi, from Cyclone Idai, new problems are rising as survivors and residents try to return to normalcy. VOA's Africa 54 TV program shines a spotlight on the challenges of burying loved one, and accessing clean drinking water.

Two weeks after Cyclone Idai slammed into Mozambique, some towns remain all but inaccessible because roads and bridges have been washed away. The situation has slowed the delivery of desperately-needed food and medicine. Most of the aid is arriving by air.

Some of the buildings in Manicaland province that were damaged by Cyclone Idai ...

Villagers hard-hit by Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe's Manicaland province are appealing for help in the reconstruction of roads damaged by heavy rains.

Food for Cyclone Idai victims in Manicaland ...

Villagers say they need food supplies in Zimbabwe's Manicaland province, ravaged by Cyclone Idai which battered the region two weeks ago.

Villagers in areas hard-hit by Cyclone Idai say they no longer have reliable sources of water as local rivers are now full of human waste. One of the villagers says they fear contracting cholera in areas without clean sources of water.

Victims of Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe are calling on the government to expedite relief aid. As Columbus Mavhunga reports from the hard-hit city of Chimanimani, the government is appealing to the international community for help with medicine, food and infrastructure.

Canada’s Ambassador to Angola, Botswana and Zimbabwe, Rene Cremonese, says all Canadians working in tea estates and other areas in Zimbabwe's Manicaland province devastated by Cyclone Idai are safe.

Canada’s Ambassador to Angola, Botswana and Zimbabwe, Rene Cremonese, says his country has set aside $3,5 million for Cyclone Idai victims in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe..