A tropical cyclone that hit central Mozambique on the weekend has displaced thousands of people and caused severe flooding in an area battered by two deadly cyclones in 2019, response teams and aid agencies said. “So many places are flooded already and it’s getting worse,” said UNICEF Mozambique spokesman Daniel Timme, speaking to AFP from Beira. Timme said the cyclone had disproportionately affected the city’s poorer neighbourhoods, where homes made of tarpaulin and corrugated iron were swept up by winds. Eloise has weakened into an overland depression since its Mozambique landfall and moved south towards South Africa. Heavy rainfall has caused flooding in South Africa’s northern Limpopo andMpumalanga provinces, as well as in neighbouring Zimbabwe.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 25, 2021 20:03 UTC