Cyclone Favio made landfall Thursday in southern Mozambique with powerful winds over 200kph, heavy rains and new misery to tens of thousands of people already forced from their homes by flooding.
About 30 people were killed in Mozambique and nearly 90,000 forced from their homes by the floods. The government said 37,000 people were being housed in tented camps before Favio struck.
Mozambique’s worst disaster occurred recently in 2000-2001 when a series of cyclones caused flooding in southern and central parts of the country, killing 700 people and forcing close to half a million to leave their homes.
A second cyclone, called Gamede, is also expected to make landfall today. Depression 16s is still unnamed and may become tropical storm Humba.
Picture credit: Naval Research Labaratory Satellite view is updated daily.
Update: UNOSAT provides a map for the humanitarian community:
Zambezi Flood Monitoring Change Detection near Muturara [jpg, 3mb]
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