In Jamaica, Hurricane Melissa has passed, but the long work of recovery is just beginning.

Many places are still very difficult to reach, and communications are very difficult.

Cell services down, there isn't power, there isn't running water.

I'm Marco Werman.

And I'm Carolyn Beeler.

Food security for Jamaicans is also a major concern.

In Tanzania, deadly demonstrations have been fueled by charges of vote rigging.

Whether you win by rigging or whether you win by disqualifying your opponents,

it's still a way of rigging an election.

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The wealthy tourists who would glide across the marble floor on the way to the swimming pool.

It oozed a life of privilege and ease. All that and more today on The World.

This is The World. I'm Carolyn Beeler. And I'm Marco Wurman. Thank you for joining us on this Monday.

People in Jamaica are starting the slow process of recovery after Hurricane Melissa tore through the island nation.

Officials say that 28 people are confirmed dead,

though that number is expected to rise. At a news conference late last week, Jamaica's education

minister, Dana Morris Dixon, said the government is prepared to mobilize billions of Jamaican

dollars for the response effort. We have to have all cabinet ministers with all hands on deck to treat with this. We have

never had a category five hurricane in our country. The devastation on the West is unimaginable.

Hurricane Melissa was especially merciless for the country's agricultural sector.

It wiped out crops and livestock, fueling concern about a food shortage.

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