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Mozambique holiday isle left in ruins by Cyclone Kenneth

01/05/201901/05/2019 by jcibme

From the air, Ibo Island on the Quirimbas Archipelago off Mozambique’s northeast coast, was speckled with flattened homes and water-logged …

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