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by Adrien BARBIER and Joaquim NHAMIRRE International aid agencies raced Wednesday to rescue survivors and meet spiralling humanitarian needs in three impoverished countries battered by one of the worst storms to hit southern Africa in decades. Five days after tropical cyclone Idai cut a swathe through Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, the confirmed death toll stood at more than 300 and hundreds of thousands of lives were at risk, officials said. “We’ve thousands of people… in […]
SENTANI, Indonesia (AFP) –Flash floods in Indonesia’s eastern Papua province have killed at least 77 people, the disaster agency said Monday as it raised the death toll from 58. More than three dozen people remain missing, while scores have been injured in the disaster, triggered by torrential rain and landslides. “The death toll could still go up with 43 people unaccounted for,” said national disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. Rescuers battled mud, rocks […]
by Joaquim Nhamirre Agence France Presse MAPUTO, Mozambique (AFP) — Tropical cyclone Idai battered central Mozambique on Friday killing at least 19 people and cutting off more than half a million people in one of the country’s largest cities Beira. State broadcaster Radio Mocambique, said “preliminary information points to 19 deaths and more than 70 injured in Sofala province as a result of cyclone Idai”. Most of the deaths occurred in Beira — a […]
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AFP) — At least 66 people have been killed and 141,000 affected after heavy rains deluged central and northern Mozambique, the government has said as it appealed for funds to manage the crisis. “The government has decreed a red alert due to the continuing rains and the approach of the tropical cyclone Idai, expected to reach the country between Thursday to Friday,” said cabinet spokeswoman Ana Comoana. She spoke to reporters late […]
BANDUNG, Indonesia (AFP) — At least two people were killed and six more were missing after torrential rains and severe flooding in parts of Indonesia, the disaster agency said Friday, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people. Heavy rain has pounded Indonesia for days, forcing the Citarum river — dubbed “the world’s dirtiest” — on Java island to burst its banks, and causing deadly flash floods in the eastern part of the sprawling Southeast […]
(Eagle News)—-Isolated light rains are expected in Metro Manila and other parts of the country on Sunday, March 3, as the northeast monsoon affects Luzon and the Visayas. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said apart from Metro Manila, Visayas and the rest of Luzon will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains. Partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers will prevail over Mindanao due to localized thunderstorms, which […]
(Eagle News)–Isolated rains will prevail in parts of the Philippines today as the northeast monsoon affects the country. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said Bicol Region and the provinces of Batanes, Cagayan, Isabela, Aurora, and Quezon will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, on the other hand, will experience partly cloudy skies. PAGASA said the northern section of Luzon and the eastern […]
(Eagle News)–Isolated light rains are expected in parts of the Philippines as the northeast monsoon affects the whole country. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, Bicol Region and the provinces of Aurora and Quezon will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains. Metro Manila and the rest of the country, on the other hand, will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies. Moderate to strong winds will prevail over the eastern […]
“Wutip” still outside PAR, though (Eagle News)–The weather disturbance being monitored by the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration has intensified. In a weather update around 5 a.m., PAGASA said “Wutip” was now a severe tropical storm as of 3 a.m. So far though, “Wutip” was still outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility, 2775 kilometers east of Mindanao, packing maximum sustained winds of up to 105 kilometers per hour, and gustiness of up to […]
(Eagle News)—Light rains are expected in some parts of the Philippines as the northeast monsoon affects the country. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains are expected over the provinces of Batanes, Cagayan, Isabela, Quirino, Nueva Vizcaya, Aurora, Bicol and Northern Samar, while partly cloudy to cloudy skies will prevail over Abra, Benguet, Mt. Province, Ifugao, Kalinga, Apayao , Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La […]
Australia’s largest cattle company has warned of “extreme losses” after record-breaking floods, as producers said more than 300,000 cows were drowned or washed away in the vast continent’s northeast. After more than five years of drought, heavy rains over an almost two-week period turned dusty and parched land in Queensland state into vast swathes of mud that bogged down already weakened cattle. Australian Agricultural Company Ltd (AACo) said Monday that four of its properties were […]
(Eagle News)–“Amang” maintained its strength on Monday, Jan. 21, as it hovered over the eastern seaboard of Eastern Samar. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said as of 10 a.m., “Amang” was located 40 kilometers north northeast of Guiuan, Eastern Samar or 45 kilometers east southeast of Borongan City, Eastern Samar It is packing maximum sustained winds of 45 kilometers per hour near the center and gustiness of up to 60 kilometers per hour, […]
