As world marks Water Day, cyclone victims stare at malaria, cholera risk

A child is transported on a fridge during floods after Cyclone Idai, in Buzi, outside Beira, Mozambique, on March 21, 2019. [Photo, Reuters]

At least half a million survivors of a powerful cyclone in southeast Africa are at risk of fatal diseases, from cholera and dysentery to malaria, aid workers warned, as rescue teams struggled to reach flood-hit communities.