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3 Feb 2021 by david MAPUTO, Mozambique
Aid workers are scrambling to help an estimated 175,000 people affected by Cyclone Eloise which ripped through the south of Mozambique recently, causing major devastation in the city of Beira and the surrounding Buzi district.
According to reports by aid agencies and local media, more than 8,000 homes have been destroyed or damaged in Sofala province, with many thousands housed in emergency accommodation centres.
Immediate concerns are for the provision of basic supplies such as food, water and hygiene facilities, as well as the associated risks of the spread of disease. In addition to water-borne diseases such as cholera, authorities are worried about the spread of COVID-19 in the cramped conditions of the emergency facilities.
Southern Africa, Flash Update No.6: Tropical Storm Chalane (as of 31 December 2020)
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After making landfall in Muanza district, central Mozambique, in the early hours of 30 December, Tropical Storm Chalane tracked inland and entered Zimbabwe as a tropical depression.
The depression has brought rains and thunderstorms to Zimbabwe and is now considered a “very weak” tropical depression by the Zimbabwean authorities.
SITUATION OVERVIEW
Tropical Storm Chalane, which made landfall in the district of Muanza, in Mozambique’s Sofala Province, in the early hours of 30 December, reportedly left at least two people dead and several injured in Sofala and Manica provinces, according to preliminary reports by the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC). In Sofala Province, at least 10,930 people (2,186 families) have been affected by Chalane. About 1,156 houses were destroyed and 1,439 damaged, about 272 tents in Buzi and Nhamatanda in resettlement sites where