{"id":5114,"date":"2019-09-05T11:42:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T08:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5114"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"six-months-after-cyclones-pope-spotlights-mozambiques-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/05\/six-months-after-cyclones-pope-spotlights-mozambiques-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Months After Cyclones, Pope Spotlights Mozambique&#8217;s Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By&nbsp;Kim Harrisberg<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pope\nFrancis set off for Mozambique on Wednesday, six months after the poor southern\nAfrican nation was struck by the worst two cyclones in its history, which\nflooded villages, flattened a major port city and killed more than 600 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Protection\nof the environment is expected to be a key theme of the pope&#8217;s six-day visit to\nMozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius, following his Sunday appeal for urgent\naction to address a global &#8220;climate emergency&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here\nare seven facts about Mozambique&#8217;s recovery efforts, six months after Cyclone\nIdai hit in March and Cyclone Kenneth in April:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1.\nSome 1.8 million people struck by Cyclone Idai in central Mozambique have\nreceived emergency aid, as well as a further 500,000 further north hit by\nCyclone Kenneth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2.\nMore than 1,000 aid workers from some 400 organisations were sent to respond to\none of the worst climate-related disasters to hit the southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3.\nWith more than 100 hospitals and clinics damaged by the cyclones, mobile\nclinics and volunteers vaccinated more than 800,000 people against cholera,\nending an outbreak, and continuing to treat measles, malaria and malnutrition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4.\nSome 75,000 people are still displaced across 68 temporary sites, awaiting\nresettlement, and relief agencies fear they do not have adequate shelter for\nrainy season that begins in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5.\nDrought, floods, cyclones and pests have disrupted farming, leaving about 1.6\nmillion people in need of food aid, which is likely to increase to nearly 2\nmillion from October without emergency support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6.\nSome 67,500 children under the age of five need treatment for malnutrition, a\nfigure that is predicted to increase at the end of the year, when families go\nhungry between harvests and rains make malaria and diarrhoea more common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7.\nThe United Nations has received about 45% of the $440 million it requested to\nrespond to Mozambique&#8217;s humanitarian needs, as flooding coincided with the\nannual harvest, damaging crops, homes and schools. Sources: United Nations\nOffice for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, World Food Programme,\nWorld Health Organization, USAID, Integrated Food Security Phase\nClassification, International Water Management Institute (IWMI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20190904161802-y022r\/\">original Article<\/a>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trust.org\/\">Thomson Reuters<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Kim Harrisberg Pope Francis set off for Mozambique on Wednesday, six months after the poor southern African nation was struck by the worst two cyclones in its history, which flooded&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}