United Nations agencies report Mozambique is still struggling to recover from last year\u2019s devastating Cyclone Idai, which triggered a humanitarian crisis that persists to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cyclone Idai, one of the worst tropical storms to affect Africa, struck Central Mozambique one year ago, killing more than 1,300 and rendering hundreds of thousands homeless. It caused widespread destruction of infrastructure and wiped out the livelihoods of millions of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Survivors are having a tough time getting back on their feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The United Nations reports 2.5 million people, half of them children, are in need of humanitarian assistance to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The World Food Program reports communities in the south of the country are suffering from severe food shortages because of prolonged drought. Moreover, it says conditions are worsening for a growing number displaced by intensified jihadist violence in the north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WFP spokeswoman Elizabeth Byrs told VOA her agency does not have the money to carry out essential reconstruction. She said last month WFP was forced to cut food rations in half for more than half a million people working on Idai recovery projects. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" United Nations agencies report Mozambique is still struggling to recover from last year\u2019s devastating Cyclone Idai, which triggered a humanitarian crisis that persists to this day. Cyclone Idai, one of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8605,"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-8604","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\/8604","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=8604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}