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FILE - In this Monday March 25, 2019 file photo, Beira Mayor Daviz Simango, right, pauses from directing disaster relief operations in Beira, Mozambique. Simango, the leader of Mozambique’s opposition MDM party and the mayor of the major port city of Beira, has died in a South Africa hospital, according to local media on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. Party officials said Simango, 57, died of complications from COVID-19, diabetes and a stroke. (AP Photo/Cara Anna, file)

Influential mayor of Mozambique city dies of COVID-19

By ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press

Beira Mayor Daviz Simango, right, pauses from directing disaster relief operations in Beira, Mozambique, Monday March 25, 2019. Simango dreamed about protecting his people from climate change with much of the city being below sea level on a coastline that experts call one of the world's most vulnerable to global warming's rising waters. (AP Photo/Cara Anna)

Mozambique city fought climate change, but cyclone roared in

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press