These Photos Show the Unbelievable Destruction Wrought by Cyclone Idai

A cyclone of incredible power slammed into the southern African nations of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi last week. At least 1.7 million people lay directly in the storm's path in Mozambique, according to the BBC, and 920,000 more have been affected in Malawi. Mozambique's president, Filipe Nyusi, has already called Cyclone Idai "a humanitarian disaster of great proportion" and suggested more than 1,000 people may have been killed in his country. "This is shaping up to be one of the worst weather-related disasters ever to hit the southern hemisphere," Clare Nullis, of the UN's weather agency, told the BBC, "if the report by [Mozambique's] president and other agencies are confirmed, in terms of the causality toll."