Story | 03 April 2019
The line on the WhatsApp voice call cracks and chops but, with most communications infrastructure and power lines swept away by the cyclone two weeks ago, this is as good as it gets.
"We got in on the first flight to arrive in Beira after the airport was reopened, just over 24 hours after Idai hit," says Gerald — ‘Gerry' — Bourke, WFP's Regional Communications Officer for Southern Africa.