Sunday, April 28, 2019

Mozambique: People trapped in rising floods as cyclone Kenneth batters c... (click here for news article - thank you)

The last estimate of the number dead from Cyclone Idai is 1000 people.

April 25, 2019

Johannesburg -- A powerful tropical cyclone (click here) is expected to make landfall by early Friday in northern Mozambique, just six weeks after Cyclone Idai devastated the central part of the country and left hundreds dead.

Mozambique is one of the world's poorest countries and Cyclone Idai wiped out crops in the southern African nation's breadbasket on the eve of harvest. Hundreds of thousands of people could face hunger in the months ahead, and a new storm bringing fresh flooding will further complicate efforts to recover.

Cyclone Kenneth could bring heavy rains and flooding to northeastern Mozambique, which was not hit by the earlier storm, and southern Tanzania, which told coastal residents to flee. The Pacific Disaster Center has forecast that landfall will occur north of the Mozambican city of Pemba....