FILE - In this Monday March 25, 2019 file photo, Beira Mayor Daviz Simango, right, pauses from directing disaster relief operations in Beira, Mozambique. Party officials said Simango, 57, died of complications from COVID-19, diabetes and a stroke. (AP Photo/Cara Anna, file)JOHANNESBURG – Daviz Simango, the leader of Mozambique's opposition MDM party and the mayor of the major port city of Beira, died Monday in a hospital in South Africa, according to local media. Simango was elected mayor of Beira, widely considered Mozambique’s second city and a center of opposition support, in 2003 and remained its leader until his death. AdSimango was first elected Beira's mayor in an electoral coalition with Renamo, Mozambique’s main opposition party.

Vehicles submerged in flood waters in Beira, Mozambique Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. “If you remember in (Cyclone) Idai we all said ‘That’s not too bad,’ but 24 hours later the big waters came." "The amount of rain will be sufficient to flood low areas of Beira and Buzi. Eloise is the second cyclone to hit central Mozambique this season, after Chalane in December. But since Idai, “people now know what a cyclone is and they take it seriously," Van Wyk said.