A major international conference on disaster risk reduction will take place under the shadow of Cyclone Idai – a disaster that underscored how little investment the international community makes in ...

In March, Cyclone Idai ravaged southeastern Africa in the “worst extreme weather event to occur so far this year,” according to the U.N. International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. As the cyclone ...

Tropical Cyclone Idai ripped through Mozambique as a high-end Category 2 storm with 175 kph (110 mph) winds last week before moving inland into Zimbabwe and Malawi, affecting 1.5 million people in its ...

Along a main road in Buzi, Mozambique, fallen mango trees, that once stretched high in to the sky, litter the sidewalks. Buildings have been reduced to rubble, while many of those still standing no ...

When Cyclone Idai struck Mozambique a year ago, fisherman Jose Martinho fled to higher ground. He saved his life, but lost everything he owned. The government resettled him and his family inland, but ...

Cyclone Idai may have killed more than a thousand people in Mozambique, the country's President, Filipe Nyusi, said in an address to the nation broadcast on national radio Monday. Cyclone Idai may ...

Mozambique winds down Africa's southeastern coast just across the Indian Ocean from Madagascar. Beira is a bustling port city, home to about half a million people. At least it was bustling until ...

Cyclone Idai, which devastated towns and killed hundreds of ­people, is shaping up to be one of the worst weather-related disasters in the southern hemisphere, the World Meteorological Organisation ...

MAPUTO (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people are still in need of aid after Cyclone Idai battered Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi in March. More than 1,000 people have been reported killed by ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — France was rushing help by ship and military aircraft to its poor overseas territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean on Monday after the island was shattered by its worst ...