March 23, 2019
No food, no water: After Cyclone Idai, mounting confusion, hunger and grief in Mozambique
Author: Max Bearak
a group of people sitting on a bench in front of a crowd: People from the town of Buzi unload from a boat at Beira Port after being rescued on Friday in Beira, Mozambique. Thousands of people are still stranded after Cyclone Idai hit the country last week.
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 h