UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is working to dispatch emergency relief items – including tents, tarpaulins, solar lanterns, cooking utensils and other items – to help refugees who lost their homes in ...

JOHANNESBURG -- A week after Cyclone Idai hit coastal Mozambique and swept across the country to Zimbabwe, the death, damage and flooding continues in southern Africa, making it one of the most ...

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa visited the country’ flooded Chimanimani area on Tuesday after cyclone winds and floods swept across southeastern Africa affecting more than 2.6 million people.

At least 31 people have been killed and dozens are reported missing in parts of eastern Zimbabwe after a tropical cyclone ripped through the country. "We have lost 31 Zimbabweans," the Ministry of ...

Tropical Cyclone Idai ripped through Mozambique as a high-end Category 2 storm with 175 kph (110 mph) winds last week before moving inland into Zimbabwe and Malawi, affecting 1.5 million people in its ...

Sub-Saharan Africa remains the area hardest hit by malaria, which, despite registering some declines over the years, the battle is far from over, according to the World Health Organization’s latest ...

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies photo Millions of people across Africa have been affected in one of the worst weather-related disasters recorded in the southern ...

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Cyclone Idai may have killed more than a thousand people in Mozambique, the country's President, Filipe Nyusi, said in an address to the nation broadcast on national radio Monday. "Officially, we have ...