Cyclone Idai, which will cost southern African nations more than $2 billion to repair the damage, may prove to be one of the worst natural disasters ever seen in the Southern Hemisphere. What measures should African leaders take to prepare for the increasing severity of weather-related disasters? Sepakers: · Danny Faure, President of Seychelles. · Helmut Fluhrer, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, WeatherTec, Switzerland. · Andiswa Mlisa, Managing Director, Earth Observation, South African National Space Agency (SANSA), South Africa. · Beat Strebel, Managing Director; Head, Middle East and Africa, Swiss Re, Switzerland. Moderated by: · Beatrice Marshall, TV Anchor, China Global Television Network (CGTN), Kenya. www.weforum.org/

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