Zimbabwe cyclone...This is new for Africa...

[SIZE=7]Cyclone Idai hits Zimbabwe, at least 24 people dead[/SIZE]
The storm which brought floodwater and widespread destruction to Mozambique and Malawi has reached Zimbabwe.
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At least 24 people have been killed and dozens are missing in parts of eastern Zimbabwe after the country was hit by tropical cyclone Idai which lashed neighbouring Mozambique and Malawi, the government said.
Cyclone Idai has affected more than 1.5 million people in the three southern African countries, according to the United Nations and government officials.
Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Information said on Saturday that so far the “number of deaths is confirmed at 24 mainly from Chimanimani East”, including two students, while at least 40 other people have been injured.
It added that the Zimbabwean national army was leading rescue efforts to airlift students from a damaged school and others trapped by the storm.
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A group of people, who fled their homes, was “marooned” on top of a mountain waiting to be rescued, but strong winds were hampering helicopter flights, the ministry said.
Many houses have been damaged and bridges washed away in parts of the Manicaland province which borders Mozambique.
Joshua Sacco, a member of parliament in Chimanimani district, said at least 25 houses were swept away following a mudslide at Ngangu township.
“There were people inside,” he told AFP news agency. “The information we have so far is that over 100 people are missing.”
In a Twitter post, Jacob Mafume, spokesman for Zimbabwe’s main opposition Movement for Democratic Change party, warned that there was a “serious humanitarian crisis” unfolding in eastern Zimbabwe districts.
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Serious humanitarian crisis unfolding in chimanimani chipinge most of our structures comms are down.We need state intervention on a massive scale to avoid biblical disaster ,homes bridges being washed away lives in danger @hwendec @daddyhop@kwirirayi @nelsonchamisa @mdczimbabwe

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In Mozambique, where Idai made landfall on Thursday, at least 19 people died and about 70 were severely injured. The storm hit with wind gusts of about 160 kilometres per hour, causing ocean waves of up to nine metres high.
Luis Fonseca, a journalist at Lusa News Agency, told Al Jazeera that the cyclone was expected to dissipate on Saturday in Mozambique, but it would continue to create trouble.
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“The problem now is that the rivers are likely to flood all the areas around, and this will cause even more damage to all these families which have [already] lost their houses.”
“Now they risk losing their harvest and food insecurity is the next big risk in all over this area,” Fonseca explains.
Local officials in Mozambique said that heavy rains earlier in the week, before the cyclone struck, had already claimed another 66 lives, injured scores and displaced 17,000 people.
When the cyclone hit Mozambique, authorities were forced to close the international airport in the port city of Beira after the air traffic control tower, the navigation systems and the runways were damaged by the storm.
An official at the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) of Mozambique told AFP on Friday “there is extreme havoc”.
“Some runway lights were damaged, the navigation system is damaged, the control tower antennas and the control tower itself are all damaged.”
“The runway is full of obstacles and parked aircraft are damaged.”
Heavy downpours in neighbouring Malawi this week have also affected almost a million people and claimed 56 lives there, according to the latest government toll.
South Africa’s military has sent in aircraft and 10 medical personnel to help in Mozambique and Malawi, it said in a statement on Saturday.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES

Africa is totally unprepared for these adverse climatic changes!

Like I said cyclones are new to us.

Even the west, tornadoes happen now and then, and end up killing people.

I doubt they are knew to us, keeping in mind , we haven’t documented our weather and climate changes for long.

Kuna washenzi hushinda wamesema “oh Africa tumebarikiwa sana. Hatuna vitu kama earthquakes, tornadoes”. Sasaaaa, ni mungu amekasirika? Tuombe ama?

I can’t even understand what you are saying…

Revelation 15/16

Eeeeeeeeeeeh, tuombe. May be the old White man in the sky who demands your love and burns you in eternal fire if you don’t give it ataskia huruma…

At least we have been documenting our history including major weather phenomenon since the advent of the 20th century.

It’s my first time hearing about a cyclone in hitting Africa.

Mozambique has been struck by severe cyclones in the past, including Eline in 2000, when 350 people died and 650,000 were displaced across the wider region.

from BBC: link

He is saying that just because Africans don’t keep records of such events, it doesn’t mean that they don’t occur.

Not so fast Uncle Ruckus

Begs the question, is the ‘Climate Change’ global phenomena they’ve been yapping about…real??!

Another chance for fake prophets to start saying they foresaw this… Yule wetu,Awourro mtamskia…akimaluzana na zile accusations za fraud.

[SIZE=6]The Zimbabwe meteorological department had only one job. To forecast a cyclone which is the easiest to predict it’s path. Chieth hao
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Apparently

the last documented one was 19 years ago. compare that to the US and those atlantic ocean island nations.

Not new, just that they haven’t happened at this scale over the last 10yrs. Check cyclone Eline, Japhet, Hudah…ziko mob. Tho this might be the biggest yet

Hata wewe you are a climate change skeptic like Trump? I have the urge to use very colourful language but it will mot be polite hivyo acha niwache.