Cyclone Idai: Aid workers struggle as 12,000 homes and schools destroyed

Their homes have been damaged and they are still very anxious but they and their families are all safe.

For the past few days, staff had to travel nine miles (15km) to call us for updates as there was no phone signal.

It was raining heavily the whole time and the waters were rising.

Since this morning they have been able to call from inside the city but the quality is very bad so it is still hard to

communicate and to get all of the details we need.

The latest information is that the rain seems so be slowing down, which is good news, but we are not sure if it will last.

The water was at around eight metres (26ft) in many places but now has fallen to around five (16ft) - some internal roads can be used by many of the major routes out of Beira and connecting to rural areas are still impassable.