Viva Freddy: How the cyclone broke 16 records in 37 days

DTE reportage tracking Cyclone Freddy from Australia to Africa

Crying fowl

Paradise lost

Omicron in southern Africa: How the region reacted after the variant emerged

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195% more Africans affected due to extreme weather events in 2019

Extreme events are also predicted for the first half of 2020 in the continent

Zimbabwe

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Water, Africa’s Gold: One crisis too many

Africa is caught in a vortex of poverty, water and disease

Flourishing unaided

The AIDS epidemic shows no sign of abating with five million new cases reported in 2001

World Bank supports Mozambique’s development project

The project aims to promote tourism, reduce poverty

Promising anti-malaria vaccine tested

EU casts its net wider

Healing the battle scars

Mozambique, Tanzania fail to curb poaching

Poachers refuse to pay fine, hunting firm violates wildlife rules

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Mozambique reels under floods

WFP cuts ration to Mozambique

Mozambique takes over its dam from Portugal

Zambezi action plan draws flak

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Long live Freddy: Cyclone which travelled across Indian Ocean, has survived for 32 days courtesy climate change

Warming due to human-induced greenhouse gases is absorbed by the oceans, increasing their heat content; this helps strengthen cyclones

Cyclone Freddy which travelled across Indian Ocean, survived for 32 days courtesy climate change

Horizontal wind shear are the horizontal winds around a cyclone. When these winds have lower speeds they help a cyclone grow in strength and when …