World Cyclone Idai Destroys ‘Ninety Percent’ of a City of Half a Million in Southern Africa March 19, 2019NORIMITSU ONISHI and JEFFREY MOYOComments Off on Cyclone Idai Destroys ‘Ninety Percent’ of a City of Half a Million in Southern Africa The cyclone has affected more than 1.5 million people, with a death toll now in the dozens but feared to be far higher.