But when powerful Cyclone Idai hit last March, ripping off part of the roof, luck spared his family. The storm killed more than 300 people, displaced about 60,000 and destroyed 50,000 homes in the southern African nation. Chimanimani has so far received average rainfall this rainy season, which runs through April. Cyclone Idai brought heavy downpours to Chimanimani and Chipinge, resulting in huge surface runoff that caused flooding as the soil was saturated and rivers overflowed, he explained. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, resilience, women’s rights, trafficking and property rights.

Source: National Post January 29, 2020 12:56 UTC