Forecasters at Meteo-France warned that Kenneth could trigger waves off Mozambique’s northeastern shore as much as five metres higher than usual.
MAPUTO - A powerful cyclone made landfall in northern Mozambique Thursday evening, barely a month after a super-storm slammed into the country’s centre, leaving hundreds dead and causing devastation.The UN warned of flash flooding and landslides.“Cyclone Kenneth is currently making landfall on the north coast of Mozambique,” the UN World Food Programme said in a statement.
“I was quite preoccupied with the sea because they announced six-metre waves ... the wind was very strong, and I’ve never seen anything like it in my 15 years in Pemba,” a Portuguese owner of a lodge on Wimby beach, Anabela Moreira, told AFP.Wazir said the electricity supply in the city was down and strong winds were gusting since this afternoon.
Kenneth passed by the Indian Ocean archipelago nation of Comoros on Thursday, battering it with high winds and heavy rains, the country’s Meteorological Office wrote on Facebook. “I have three children, one is small, just one month and 10 days . We were here until 11 pm last night when things deteriorated,” local resident Abdillah Alaoui told AFP.Tanzanian authorities ordered schools and businesses shut in some southern districts on Thursday and urged people to brace for extreme winds and rain.
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