The death toll from flooding and landslides in northern Tanzania has risen to 63.
In order to deal with the impact of the heavy rains, President Samia Suluhu Hassan is cutting short her attendance at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai.
Homes, infrastructure and farmland have also been damaged.
Massive floods are sweeping through countries across East Africa, with the El Nino weather phenomenon partly to blame.
Tanzania’s government said 400 rescue workers have been sent to the northern Hanang district.
However, rescuers are operating under challenging conditions, such as defective telecommunications and blocked, damaged roads, the president’s spokesperson, Zuhura Yunus, said in a statement.
President Samia was among the dozens of world leaders who gathered at the major UN summit to discuss tackling climate change.
The president has ordered her government to pay for the funerals of those killed by the flooding and landslides.
