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Mertina Balele and her husband, Lucas Murrure, watched in horror as flooding caused by Cyclone Freddy wrecked the 15ha of groundnuts, maize, beans and cassava that they had just planted. When the cyclone, one of the deadliest recorded worldwide, hit Mozambique for the second time in 2023, it made landfall just north of Vilankulo, not […]
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By Tara Carey “Cyclone Freddy was a terrible experience, and now many women who lost their homes and their livelihoods are at increased risk of sexual exploitation and abuse,” warns Caleb Ng’ombo, Director of People Serving Girls at Risk (PSGR), a frontline NGO in Malawi that supports vulnerable women whose lives have been devastated by the record-breaking […]
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Representatives from the African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group and the African Development Bank presented two symbolic cheques to the Government of the Republic of Madagascar and World Food Programme for a combined insurance payout of $1.5 million to support the country’s recovery from Tropical Cyclone Freddy. This payout includes $1.2 million to the Government of […]
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By Charles Mpaka In Sonjeka village in Mulanje district, which lies on the border with Mozambique in southern Malawi, destroyed crop fields stretch almost interminably after floods ripped through them when Tropical Cyclone Freddy pounded the country. Charles Mpaka One of those fields lying in waste with its drying maize stalks flattened to the ground, if […]
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Fifty-seven people are confirmed dead and more than 330 000 have been affected by the flooding and destruction Cyclone Freddy caused in Mozambique’s Zambezia and Sofala provinces in late February and earlier in March, says ForAfrika’s country manager for Mozambique, Arsenio Mucavele. ForAfrika, the largest African humanitarian organisation in Africa, is working alongside communities in […]
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Nearly 4 000 people are isolated in Mozambique’s Mabote area, cut off by flooding after Cyclone Freddy hit the Southern African country on 24 February 2023, says ForAfrika’s country manager for Mozambique, Arsenio Mucavele. Cyclone Freddy is expected to return to Mozambique at the weekend. Mucavele and other ForAfrika staff flew into Mabote district on […]
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ForAfrika staff are working alongside communities battered by torrential rain and flooding caused by Cyclone Freddy, which made landfall in Mozambique on 24 February. “Many people in Mozambique face food shortages, a possible cholera outbreak in Inhambane and loss of income due to the heavy rains we have suffered in the past week,” says ForAfrika’s […]
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Cyclone Freddy, which killed seven people in Madagascar earlier this week, made landfall along Mozambique’s coastline as a severe tropical storm on Friday and is expected to cause flooding and the destruction of homes and livelihoods. “Our teams are on standby, we are well equipped to respond to those most affected, as swiftly as possible,” […]
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