Flooding from tropical cyclone Idai, the biggest to hit southern Africa in over a decade, has left 122 people dead in Mozambique and Malawi, with more than 140,000 people displaced, local media reports. Described as the deadliest weather disaster of 2019, the tropical cyclone made landfall on Thursday evening just north of the port city of Beira in Mozambique. The strongest winds around the eye were about 160km an hour, blowing from the south across the city, according to Aljazeera. Idai cyclone destroys homes. The floods in Mozambique have already destroyed 5,756 homes, affecting 15,467 households and 141,325 people, the report added.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 15, 2019 21:56 UTC