Mozambique: 23,000 people affected by cyclone
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JOHANNESBURG, 6 March (IRIN) - Some
23,000 Mozambicans have been affected by cyclone Japhet which lashed the
coast this week, the government's disaster management authority the INGC
told IRIN on Thursday.
The agency was still compiling figures
for the number of people left homeless by the cyclone, which killed at
least three people when it made landfall in the southern province of Inhambane
on Monday. The winds tore the roofs off houses, brought down power lines
and devastated crops.
Tents, plastic sheeting and medicine have been sent to the affected areas, INGC official Rogerio Manguele said.
"We have a contingency plan and we are trying to improve our response," Manguele added.
This is the traditional cyclone season in Mozambique. In January, tropical depression Delfina killed at least 47 people, and washed away roads and bridges and destroyed crops and homes in the northern provinces of Nampula and Zambezia.
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