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The Disaster Less than a month after Gloria and 45 days after Eline, a third cyclone, Hudah, hit the North-East coast of Madagascar on Sunday night, 2 April. The eye of the cyclone was located between the coastal towns of…

JOHANNESBURG, 4 April (IRIN) - As cyclone Hudah moved towards the Mozambique coast on Tuesday after bringing new devastation to Madagascar, the weather cleared sufficiently in Madagascar enabling the humanitarian community to conduct its first assessment flights. The UN Disaster…

SITUATION: Cyclone Hudah hit Madagascar Monday and is expected eventually to strike an area of Mozambique that so far has been spared the effects from the previous two cyclones that have caused flooding and extensive damage. Hudah is the…

Stephanie Kriner, Staff Writer, DisasterRelief.org After demolishing nearly every building in the northeastern Madagascar city of Antalaha on Monday, Cyclone Hudah was steaming straight for flood-ravaged Mozambique on Tuesday. Although weakened after passing over northern Madagascar, Hudah will strengthen as it…

Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their homes, belongings and crops following cyclones, heavy rains and floods that battered Mozambique, Madagascar, Zimbabwe and several other Southern African countries since February. Continuing bad weather has already washed away one harvest…

JOHANNESBURG, 3 April (IRIN) - A powerful cyclone ripped through Madagascar on Monday with strong winds and heavy rains causing fresh devastation in areas where the humanitarian community was already helping people rebuild their lives after the destruction wrought by…

Southern Africa's flood zone is continually threatened by forecasts of additional rain to the region where more than two million people have been affected. Catholic Relief Services has committed $450,000 in response to the emergency and the agency is working…

Ref: OCHA/GVA - 2000/0071 OCHA Situation Report No. 1 Madagascar - Cyclone "Hudah" 3 April 2000 Situation 1. A third cyclone, "Hudah", hit Madagascar on the night of 2 April 2000, bringing heavy rain and strong winds to the north-eastern part of the…

As yet another cyclone batters the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, residents are still trying to come to terms with the effects of two previous ones. Cyclones Eline and Gloria left Marie, her disabled teenage son, Jean-Luc, and thousands like…

By Honore Razafintsalama ANTANANARIVO, April 2 (Reuters) - Madagascar, still recovering from widespread cyclone damage one month ago, braced itself on Sunday for the arrival of a new cyclone described by meteorologists as ''very intense.'' The Indian Ocean island republic's…