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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — At least 27 people have been killed and hundreds injured after a freak storm hit southern Nepal, destroying houses, uprooting trees and toppling electricity poles, officials said. The thunderstorm swept through the district of Bara and adjoining areas late Sunday killing at least 27 people and injuring more than 600, according to the home ministry. “The winds took away everything, my home and my family,” Ram Babu Patel, 45, who lost […]
by Nicolas DELAUNAY BEIRA, Mozambique (AFP) — Doctors and nurses wearing Wellington boots and face masks tended to patients in tents at a hastily-erected treatment center in Beira, Mozambique following the devastation of cyclone Idai and its aftermath. Several dozen patients suspected of having cholera, an infection caused by bacteria, were grouped outside the hospital in the Macurungo neighbourhood according to the severity of their symptoms which can include diarrhoea. “We’re not leaving anything to […]
by Nicolas DELAUNAY BEGAJA, Mozambique (AFP) — Twelve people perched precariously on a branch of a mango tree, sheltering from the floodwaters of tropical Cyclone Idai which wrought devastation across southern Africa. “But after two days, it snapped,” said Isabel Bernard, 20, a survivor of the storm’s aftermath who had been clinging to the tree branch along with her son. “We were thrown into the water and I lost sight of my son. I looked […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iran battled torrential rain and floods across most of the country on Tuesday, warning citizens to stay vigilant after unprecedented flash flooding killed 23 people. The authorities also announced for the first time that seven people were killed a week ago in separate floods that swept the northeastern provinces of Golestan and Mazandaran. The latest deluge claimed the lives of 19 people and injured 98 in the worst-hit southern city of […]
by Adrien Barbier and Nicolas Delaunay, with Nina Larson in Geneva Agence France Presse BEIRA, Mozambique (AFP) — Survivors of a cyclone that pummelled southern Africa began receiving medicine, food and tents Tuesday as floodwaters receded, while officials warned up to 500,000 people are displaced in the storm-struck region. Cyclone Idai smashed into Mozambique’s coast, unleashing hurricane-force wind and rain that flooded swathes of the poor country before battering eastern Zimbabwe — killing more […]
by Kay Armin Serjoie TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Major floods across much of Iran have left 19 people dead and more than 90 injured, blocking roads and triggering landslides with warnings of more heavy rain to come, emergency services said Monday. Such a widespread flood threat is unprecedented in arid Iran, which until 2018 was dealing with decades of drought. Seventeen people were killed and 94 injured in the southern city of Shiraz, one person […]
by Adrien BARBIER and Joaquim NHAMIRRE BEIRA, Mozambique (AFP) — Disease is threatening to aggravate the already dire conditions facing millions of survivors following the powerful tropical cyclone which ravaged southern Africa 10 days ago, officials warned on Sunday. Cyclone Idai smashed into Mozambique’s coast unleashing hurricane-force wind and rain that flooded swathes of the poor country before battering eastern Zimbabwe — killing 705 people across the two nations. Amid the ongoing crisis, Zimbabwean television […]
BEIRA, Mozambique (AFP) — The death toll in Mozambique has climbed to 417 after a cyclone devastated swathes of the southern African country, flooding thousands of square kilometres (miles), the government said Saturday. Cyclone Idai smashed into the coast of central Mozambique on Friday last week, unleashing hurricane-force winds and rains that flooded the hinterland and drenched eastern Zimbabwe. “At this time 417 deaths have been recorded,” Lands and Environment Minister Celso Correia told […]
(Eagle News)—-Cloudy skies will prevail in many parts in the country on Saturday, March 23, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. According to PAGASA, Bicol Region, Samar Provinces, Caraga, and Davao Region will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers due to localized thunderstorms. Batanes and Babuyan Group of Islands will also experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers but this time due to the frontal system. Place: […]
by Adrien BARBIER and Joaquim NHAMIRRE BEIRA, Mozambique (AFP) — The death toll from a cyclone that ravaged three southern African countries last week headed Thursday towards 400, as officials estimated that more than 1.7 million people had been affected by the storm and 15,000 people were still stranded in floodwater. As the toll surged from the region’s biggest storm in years, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced plans to tackle an emerging threat to […]
BEIRA, Mozambique (AFP) — The death toll in Mozambique after Tropical Cyclone Idai struck the southern African nation last week has climbed to more than 200, President Filipe Nyusi said Tuesday. “According to the information given to us here… we already have more than 200 dead, and nearly 350,000 people are at risk,” the president said after attending a cabinet meeting in the storm-stricken central city of Beira. The confirmed death toll stood at 202, […]
by Adrien BARBIER with Zinyange AUNTONY in Chimanimani BEIRA, Mozambique (AFP) — More than a thousand people are feared to have died in a cyclone that smashed into Mozambique last week, while scores were killed and more than 200 are missing in neighboring Zimbabwe. The city of Beira in central Mozambique bore Cyclone Idai’s full wrath on Thursday before the storm barrelled on to neighboring Zimbabwe, unleashing fierce winds and flash floods and washing away […]
