Cyclone Chido killed at least ninety four people in Mozambique in its deadly rampage through the Indian Ocean last week, the country’s disaster management agency said, raising a previous death toll of seventy six.

The cyclone, which devastated the French island territory of Mayotte before hitting the African mainland, also destroyed 110,000 homes in Mozambique.

It comes as the southern African nation reels from a deadly post-election crisis pitting the party in power since Mozambique’s independence from Portugal against an opposition crying foul over alleged electoral fraud.

After making landfall, the storm ravaged the northern province of Cabo Delgado with gusts of around 260 kilometres per hour, pelting it with 250 millimetres of rain in a day.

That part of northern Mozambique is both regularly ravaged by tropical storms and wrestling with unrest from a long-running Islamist insurgency.