Destructive Cyclone Idai rings 'alarm bell' on climate change: UN chief - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

This handout picture taken and released on March 18, 2019, by the Mission Aviation Fellowship shows people on a roof surrounded by flooding in an area affected by Cyclone Idai in Beira.

Guterres described Idai, which flattened homes and caused massive flooding after slamming into Mozambique near the port of Beira on March 14, as “an uncommonly fierce and prolonged storm”. “At least one million children need urgent assistance and this number may well grow. We fear that whole villages have been washed away in places we have yet to reach,” Secretary-General Guterres told reporters at the United Nations.The storm was, Guterres said, “yet another alarm bell about the dangers of climate change”.

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