March 24, 2019

Mozambique waits for aid after cyclone

Author: Max Bearak

Men retrieve the body of 17-year-old Agreement Munanga, who died last Friday after Cyclone Idai caused mudslides in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. [The Associated Press]
BUZI, Mozambique - In the week since Cyclone Idai triggered unprecedented flooding in central Mozambique, there have been speculative death tolls in the thousands, but barely any bodies recovered.
The newly homeless are estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands, across dozens of towns and villages, but there are no camps yet to house