Cyclone News
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The International Monetary Fund will consider a $130 million accelerated aid package for storm-hit Mozambique as soon as next week, a senior IMF official said Friday.
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Maputo -
A cyclone-induced cholera outbreak in central Mozambique has killed two people and infected more than 1,400, the government announced Tuesday on the eve of the launch of a mass vaccination drive.
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Beira -
Five cases of cholera have been confirmed in Mozambique following the cyclone that ravaged the country killing at least 468 people, a government health official said Wednesday.
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Twelve people perched precariously on a branch of a mango tree, sheltering from the floodwaters of tropical Cyclone Idai which wrought devastation across southern Africa.
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Beira -
A cyclone which struck southern Africa has affected almost three million people, of whom nearly 500,000 have been driven from their homes, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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Beira -
Survivors of a powerful cyclone that pummelled southern Africa were to begin receiving emergency medicine, food and tents on Tuesday as floodwaters receded, while the Red Cross warned of "a ticking bomb" of disease in the storm-struck region.
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Geneva -
A powerful cyclone that pummelled southern African countries earlier this month has left survivors facing "a ticking bomb" of looming disease outbreaks, the Red Cross chief warned Monday.
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Beira -
"It was very scary, we were running in all direction, the water was full of snakes," recalls 39-year-old Otelea Jose after arriving from one of the areas worst hit by southern Africa's deadly cyclone.
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Beira -
Disease is threatening to aggravate the already dire conditions facing millions of survivors following the powerful tropical cyclone which ravaged southern Africa 10 days ago, officials warned on Sunday.
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Cairns -
A "very destructive" category 4 cyclone slammed into Australia's remote northern coast on Saturday, while a second, equally powerful storm bore down on the country's west.
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Chipinge -
Eunica Simango sits with downcast eyes as she waits at a relief centre in Chimanimani.
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Beira -
The death toll from a powerful cyclone that pummelled swathes of southern African countries, flooding thousands of square kilometres, on Saturday surged past 600 as diseases stalked tens of thousands of survivors.
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Washington -
The United States said Thursday it had sent a team to cyclone-hit Mozambique to provide safe drinking water and other necessities after the region's biggest storm in decades.
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Beira -
Wet beds stand empty in water-logged wards, workers slosh through the corridors in rubber boots and a nauseating smell permeates the air: Beira's main hospital is stricken, just when it is needed most.
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Beira -
Perched on the terraces of a sports stadium, scores of marooned people stare down at a basketball court filled with dirty brown water.
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Vatican City -
Pope Francis expressed his pain Wednesday at the devastation wrought by Cyclone Idai in southern Africa and called for "comfort and support" for victims of the disaster.
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Cairns -
A powerful tropical cyclone that lashed the northeast coast of Australia, closing ports and causing power outages, is expected to strengthen further Wednesday.
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Chipinge -
Agony is etched in Tapiwa Chanyawo’s face as he tells of the night the storm came, a mudslide swept away their home, and his family died.
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Beira -
Rescue workers in Mozambique were on Tuesday racing to pluck people out of trees and off rooftops after a monster storm which officials fear claimed more than 1,000 lives before smashing into Zimbabwe.
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Beira -
More than 120 people have died and many more are missing in Mozambique and neighbouring Zimbabwe on Sunday after tropical cyclone Idai barrelled across the southern African nations with flash floods and ferocious winds.
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Harare -
At least 31 people have been killed and dozens are missing as tropical cyclone Idai hit eastern parts of Zimbabwe after lashing neighbouring Mozambique, the government said on Saturday.
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New Delhi -
The death toll from a cyclone that battered India's eastern coast has reached 33, a disaster official said Sunday, as authorities assessed the damage caused by the powerful storm.
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Salalah -
Cyclone Mekunu was downgraded further to a deep depression Saturday, a day after lashing the southern coast of Oman and killing at least two people, authorities said.
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Nukalofa -
International aid began trickling in on Wednesday to areas of Tonga devastated by Cyclone Gita, as Fiji escaped the worst of the storm's fury.
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Nukalofa -
A battered Nuku'alofa began cleaning up Tuesday after the most powerful cyclone ever recorded in the Tongan capital tore roofs off buildings, downed powerlines and caused extensive flooding, prompting a state of emergency in the tiny Pacific nation.
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Nukalofa -
Tonga declared a state of emergency Monday as the Pacific island kingdom braces for a direct hit by a powerful cyclone that is threatening to become a Category Five superstorm.
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Paris -
No matter what they are called -- cyclones, hurricanes or typhoons -- the giant tropical storms that form in oceans near the Americas and Asia can be deadly, destructive and terrifyingly capricious.
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Aid workers warned Wednesday of an "acute crisis" in Bangladesh after a cyclone destroyed thousands of homes and devastated camps housing Rohingya refugees, leaving many without food or shelter.
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Cox's Bazar -
Aid workers warned Wednesday of an "acute crisis" in Bangladesh after a cyclone destroyed thousands of homes and devastated camps housing Rohingya refugees, leaving many without food or shelter.
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Cox's Bazar -
Aid workers warned Wednesday of an "acute crisis" in Bangladesh after a cyclone destroyed thousands of homes and devastated camps housing Rohingya refugees, leaving many without food or shelter.
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Cyclone Image
The Keysborough Fire Station was flooded in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Yasi - despite being almost 3,000 km (1,800 miles) to the North. Sascha Grant
A cyclone striking Suva, Fiji by StormPetrel1
At least 17 people have been killed in flooding and hundreds made homeless after Cyclone Cleopatra dropped 450mm of rain in an hour causing rivers to burst their banks on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italian authorities said on Tuesday. With permission by Reuters
At least 17 people have been killed in flooding and hundreds made homeless after Cyclone Cleopatra dropped 450mm of rain in an hour causing rivers to burst their banks on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italian authorities said on Tuesday. With permission by Reuters
NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Cyclone Phet on June 4 at 2:40 a.m. EDT showed the lack of an eye, indicating that the storm had weakened after making landfall in Oman NASA Goddard/MODIS Rapid Response Team
At least 17 people have been killed in flooding and hundreds made homeless after Cyclone Cleopatra dropped 450mm of rain in an hour causing rivers to burst their banks on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italian authorities said on Tuesday. With permission by Reuters
Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo Bernard Gagnon
Cyclone Thane affecting the India region, as seen here vinothchandar
At least 17 people have been killed in flooding and hundreds made homeless after Cyclone Cleopatra dropped 450mm of rain in an hour causing rivers to burst their banks on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italian authorities said on Tuesday. With permission by Reuters
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