Agencies struggling

AID workers were racing to help survivors in three southern African countries battered by the region’s worst storm in years.

Five days after tropical cyclone Idai hit Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, the death toll stood at more than 300 and hundreds of thousands of lives were at risk, officials said.

“We’ve thousands of people … in roofs and trees still waiting for rescue,” Caroline Haga, spokeswoman for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said.