{"id":226708,"date":"2026-03-12T13:35:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-life-between-cyclones-how-beiras-people-carry-the-mental-weight-of-storms-that-never-really-end\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:35:01","slug":"mozambique-life-between-cyclones-how-beiras-people-carry-the-mental-weight-of-storms-that-never-really-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-life-between-cyclones-how-beiras-people-carry-the-mental-weight-of-storms-that-never-really-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Life Between Cyclones &#8211; How Beira&#8217;s People Carry the Mental Weight of Storms That Never Really End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\"><em>Six years after Cyclone Idai ripped through Beira, the city&#8217;s wounds \u2014 physical and psychological \u2014 are still raw. As a new storm gathered in the Indian Ocean in February, journalist Sean Christie found a city caught in a permanent state of waiting for the next disaster to hit.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cyclone Idai killed over 500 people in Mozambique in March 2019 and caused widespread destruction in Beira. But six years later, the toll on the mental health of survivors is still raw.<\/li>\n<li>In the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/disasters?list=Mozambique%20Disasters&amp;advanced-search=%28C164%29\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> last decade alone, 10&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603120233.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six years after Cyclone Idai ripped through Beira, the city&#8217;s wounds \u2014 physical and psychological \u2014 are still raw. As a new storm gathered in the Indian Ocean in February, journalist Sean Christie found a city caught in a permanent state of waiting for the next disaster to hit. Cyclone Idai killed over 500 people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680940:cd1039f3e8f4a51caf9268bbcd9f7a14:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,53890,11532,28280,6448,8854,4704,682,257,6321,254,16293,15359],"class_list":["post-226708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beiras","tag-carry","tag-cyclones","tag-life","tag-mental","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-people","tag-south-africa-today","tag-storms","tag-weight"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680940:cd1039f3e8f4a51caf9268bbcd9f7a14:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}