Ten days ago, Cyclone Idai struck Zimbabwe and Mozambique, killing more than 700 people and displacing 500,000.
UN officials warned that four times that many people may be displaced by the time they’ve fully accounted for the storm’s devastation. The death toll, too, will almost certainly rise; cases of cholera have now been reported, along with an increase in malaria cases. United Nations meteorologist Clare Nullis has said that Idai could rank among the worst weather-related disasters in the Southern Hemisphere, ever. It’s the biggest humanitarian crisis in Mozambique’s history.
The US was struck by a disaster last week, too — catastrophic flooding in the Midwest, with more than 2,000 homes destroyed so far, some people in remote areas still stranded, dams and levees bursting, and no end in sight, as it’s still early in the potential flood season.
[For more on this story by Kelsey Piper, go to https://www.vox.com/future-per...al-relief-mozambique]
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