But with many of the missing feared dead‚ and with malnutrition and disease expected to claim hundreds more lives over the next six months‚ Idai’s toll is expected to surpass the Indonesian storm.
About 50 US military personnel have been sent to Mozambique to assist with logistics‚ including transporting food and medical supplies.
The UN FAO said Mozambique‚ Malawi and Zimbabwe remained"under severe threat". As floods receded‚"keeping animals alive‚ rehabilitating damaged land and rebooting food production will be critical"‚ it added‚ given that 80% of the population in Mozambique depends on agriculture.On Thursday‚ UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said the destruction wrought by Idai was a stark reminder of how climate change was hurting the planet.
Guterres told governments to come to a September climate summit in New York with concrete plans to boost climate action‚ as he released a flagship report on global warming by the World Meteorological Organisation. Scientists say a megastorm like Idai is likely to happen again. According to 120 years of data compiled by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters‚ six of the 10 worst cyclones to strike the southern hemisphere have occurred in the last 25 years.
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