CycloneFreddy 🌀is on its way back to Mozambique 👀for the second time after it regained momentum in Madagascar at the beginning of this month. Full story ➡️
“Freddy has been active for three weeks now – starting close to Australia, moving over the entire Indian Ocean, causing heavy rainfall and floods as it moved over Madagascar in the last week of February.
“Freddy is now on its way back to Mozambique and expected to make landfall north of Beira the coming weekend. At this point, it appears that the province of Zambezia will be hardest hit,” she said.
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