JOHANNESBURG — A tropical cyclone that is among the most ferocious ever to strike Africa’s eastern coast continued to bring heavy rains and fierce winds to Mozambique on Friday, and there are fears that it could lead to the kind of deadly floods that devastated the country last month. The storm, Cyclone Kenneth, destroyed scores of homes and killed at least one person in Cabo Delgado, the northern province where it made landfall Thursday evening. More than 700,000 people live in the cyclone’s path, according to the United Nations, and the government has already evacuated more than 30,000. The maximum wind speed of the cyclone weakened rapidly overnight after landing and slackened from 140 miles per hour to 85 miles per hour, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, as it moved north of Pemba, the provincial capital, into more sparsely populated districts.

Source: International New York Times April 26, 2019 12:11 UTC