Daviz Simango, mayor of Beira, Mozambique, thought that his coastal city was prepared for cyclones. In 2012, the city built a new drainage system and wave barriers with $120 million from the World ...

Beira, Mozambique – Albano Joze, stares blankly at a group of fishermen casting their nets in shallow waters on the coast of the Indian Ocean, near Beira, Mozambique’s second largest city. He kicks a ...

BEIRA, Mozambique — Daviz Simango grew up in Beira, Mozambique, the port city on the Indian Ocean, and has been mayor since 2003. He has seen many changes in Mozambique’s fourth-largest city, ...

A cyclone that slammed into Mozambique last week has damaged or destroyed 90 percent of the city of Beira, the Red Cross said Monday, as the death toll in the country and neighbouring Zimbabwe rose to ...

Maputo, Mozambique (AP) -- Heavy rains from Cyclone Gombe are causing flooding in central Mozambique's port city of Beira, which was severely hit by a deadly cyclone three years ago. Torrential rains ...

As the death toll for Cyclone Idai rises to 750 people across southern Africa, the storm hit city of Beira is slowly beginning the long road to recovery. The Category 2 storm made landfall shortly ...

Maputo — The mayor of the central Mozambican city of Beira, Daviz Simango, has dismissed as "lies" claims by the ruling Frelimo Party that the only improvements in Beira during the five years he has ...

President Filipe Nyusi feared the death toll could rise to 1,000 in Mozambique in the wake of Cyclone Idai he said in a nationwide address on Monday. “For the moment we have registered 84 deaths ...

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As the death toll for Cyclone Idai rises to 750 people across southern Africa, the storm hit city of Beira is slowly beginning the long road to recovery. The Category 2 storm made landfall shortly ...