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By Staff Reporter
TROPICAL storm Chalane, which hit Zimbabwe Wednesday evening, has caused minor damages in some parts of Manicaland province and villagers who had been moved to evacuation centres have since started trooping back home.
More than 600 people had been evacuated in Chimanimani where it was expected the tropical storm would cause extensive damage.
In Chipinge, at the Tongogara Refugee Camp, over 100 refugee families were temporarily moved to higher ground.
“The Chalane weather system reached Zimbabwe in the evening of 30 December as a tropical depression, with heavy rains and bursts of strong winds in Chimanimani East in Manicaland Province, with some roofs of houses blown off, as well electricity and cellular network disruptions,” a report issued by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reads.
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