'A night full of screams': Africa's climate change impacts


By AGENCY

The damage caused by Idai in Mozambique has had long-term effects, with many farmers having lost their harvest. Photos: Gioia Forster/dpa

The night when her husband died in the floodwaters has been etched into her memory, says Malita Tembo.

The members of the family were torn out of their sleep when the wall of their clay hut in the village of Nyachikadza, in southern Malawi, caved in.

They were pelted by rain from a storm, which was later given the name Idai, and which United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres called "one of the worst weather-related catastrophes in the history of Africa".

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