Officials fear hundreds of people could be dead as a result of the cyclone, which ravaged France’s poorest department.

Cyclone Chido has killed 94 people in Mozambique since it made landfall in the east African country last week, local authorities have said.The country's National Institute of Risk and Disaster Management (INGD) said 768 people were injured and more than 622,

The swirling wind and rain hit an area where a yearslong insurgency had already forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes.