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Madagascar - 'Overwhelming' Destruction, Surging Needs After Back-to-Back Cyclones
Cyclone Gezani caused over 80% damage in Toamasina, Madagascar, and left 40 dead with urgent humanitarian needs amid a worsening food security crisis, WFP reported.
- Tuesday's landfall by Cyclone Gezani over Toamasina left the island's main port in ruins and prompted a national emergency, with $142m in damage.
- Developing east of Madagascar, Gezani intensified after re-entering the Mozambique Channel and struck about 10 days after Cyclone Fytia at the start of the cyclone season.
- On the ground in Toamasina, WFP teams found about 400,000 people face acute needs, with the city running on roughly 5 percent electricity, no water, and WFP’s office and warehouse destroyed.
- The WFP warned that needs exceed its capacity, highlighting a $18 million funding gap over the next six months and urging sustained donor support over the coming months.
- Recent flooding affected more than 700,000 people and damaged more than 170,000 homes, while before the cyclones 1.57 million people were food insecure, including 84,000 at emergency levels.
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Madagascar - 'Overwhelming' Destruction, Surging Needs After Back-to-Back Cyclones
Some 10 days after tropical cyclone Fytia brought heavy rains and flooding to Madagascar, cyclone Gezani has left the island's main port in ruins, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
At least four deaths, a serious injury and about 500 people affected is the balance of the passing of the intense tropical cyclone Gezani in the province of Inhambane, southern Mozambique.
After sowing death in Madagascar, where 41 people lost their lives according to a new assessment by the authorities, cyclone Gezani caused at least four deaths in Mozambique, even while remaining 50 km from its coast, announced Saturday the administration of the country of Southern Africa.
Does tropical cyclone Gezani pose a threat to SA? This is what you need to know
The South African Weather Service (SAWS) continues to closely monitor tropical cyclone Gezani, currently located in the Mozambique Channel. Gezani, which developed over the south-west Indian Ocean to the east of Madagascar, made landfall over Madagascar as a tropical cyclone on Tuesday afternoon. Environmental conditions After moving inland, it weakened to an overland depression before entering the Mozambique Channel. Upon entering the Mozambiqu…
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