{"id":384731,"date":"2026-01-22T19:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384731\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T19:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:28:16","slug":"hundreds-of-people-killed-or-missing-after-floods-in-southern-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384731\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of people killed or missing after floods in southern Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scourge of extreme weather<\/p>\n<p class=\"description dxoq797 l1evdo4u blt0baw s16w0xvi rcjjkz7 w128axg5 b1fzgn0z\">Mozambique is often affected by extreme weather: located on the Indian Ocean, it is regularly hit by cyclones. According to a World Bank report, between 1980 and 2022, the country was battered by a total of 28 cyclones, 20 severe floods, and 15 droughts. Climate change is also making floods in southeastern Africa more frequent and severe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scourge of extreme weather Mozambique is often affected by extreme weather: located on the Indian Ocean, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-384731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}