on peace and security law and governance in africa welcome to you all i want to begin with you nicholas finney and pemba clearly two psych loans in six weeks has meant that all of the idea organizations not just yours very stretch what are your immediate needs right now. yeah well thanks thanks for that yeah this is a really tricky situation our immediate needs right now are to respond as quickly as we can with emergency relief materials to those who have been impacted by cycling kenneth struck on thursday we have to do that without bringing capacity out of the cycle and die response which is underway in central mozambique this cyclon that landed here on thursday a really bulldozed coastline of north mozambique in a place where they're not used cyclons people weren't so the pad for this including the humanitarian community we've been really stretched response so far first priority get some emergency shelter me materials on the ground second priority get some food on the ground third priority try to create a safe and clean environment for people but it's taking time the logistical hurdles are a

nicholas finney is save the children's response team leader in mozambique he joins us via skype from the northern city of we appreciate you taking the time to speak to us i know you must be very busy at the moment i think you or at least one of your teams have had a chance to visit me a district now this is one of the hardest hit areas how are people there coping and what did your team find on have as it. well they find very heavy damage to shout eighty to ninety percent of roofs were lost and they found people's families and children. really just pulling together the remains of a great thing of housing to try and take some shelter from the rain that's been ongoing and the other thing that they found was that really people have been quite terrified they've been out in the open for thirty six as it and it's estimated that the winds from the cycling were blowing extremely hard for about twenty four hours they passed over some of these places and these these are areas where there's not really any experience of this type of storm and in living memory so really quite terrifying and leavin

on nicholas finney is the save the children services from a church save the children's response team in mozambique he says the thousands displaced are struggling to build shelters play fighting very heavy. shouts eighty to ninety percent of roofs were lost and i found people's families and children. really just pulling together the remains of three thing of housing to try and take some shelter from the rain that's been ongoing and the other thing that they found was that really people have been quite terrified they've been in the open for thirty six hours and it's estimated that when from the cyclon were blowing extremely hard for about twenty four hours they passed over some of these places and these these are areas where there's not really any experience of this type of storm and in living memory so really quite terrifying and even populations in a state of shock there's also a prediction that the storm a pass back over the sea and really intensifying into another cycle in and we would be able to say where that would go and it's a very scary scenario for people already face so lots