Warning: Worse ahead
How Africa can better prepare for killer floods, tropical cyclones
Climate change is increasing the severity of storms around the world and Africa's fast-growing cities are particularly vulnerable to devastating cyclones and flooding, writes Claire Keeton
16 April 2023 - 00:00
“The Durban floods a year ago were the worst but they were not the first,” says climatology professor Francois Engelbrecht, head of the Global Change Institute at Wits University. In April 2022, at least 459 people died in floods worsened by the climate crisis, scores are still missing, thousands lost their homes and damage amounted to nearly R20bn. ..
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