Cyclone Idai damages estimated at $2bn: World Bank eNCA
Southern Malawi was also drowned in heavy rainfall in an earlier phase of the storm, killing 59.The lender said the cyclone had damaged the infrastructure corridor connecting the Mozambican port of Beira with Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe,"disrupting regional trade and supplies of fuel, wheat and other goods."
The UN has appealed for donations of $282-million to fund emergency assistance for the next three months. The World Bank called for"global collaboration" as recovery and reconstruction gets underway for poor and vulnerable populations"in the face of climate and disaster risk."
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