With winds up to 280km/h leaving 1.5 million displaced and ruining 711,000 hectares of crops, Cyclone Idai grabbed the headlines earlier this year. It caused an estimated $1bn damage to infrastructure across Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
In modern Muslim society, it is a rare and beautiful thing when a husband shows affection to his wife, but it can be a death knell for the man’s mother, with whom they live.