Cyclone Idai’s Death Toll Now Above 1,000 in Southern Africa

Cyclone Idai’s Death Toll Now Above 1,000 in Southern Africa
Women and men pick up bricks from a collapsed house to build another structure in Beira, Mozambique, on March, 31, 2019. Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/Photo via AP
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HARARE, Zimbabwe—The death toll from the cyclone that ripped into southern Africa last month is now above 1,000, while the number of cholera cases among survivors has risen above 4,000.

The United Nations has described Cyclone Idai, which hit Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi nearly a month ago, as “one of the deadliest storms on record in the southern hemisphere.”