Tropical Cyclone Zelia intensified as it moved toward the Western Australia coast on February 11, the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) said, publishing this footage. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said the cyclone was a Category 2 and would likely reach Category 3 by Thursday. It was expected to make landfall […]
In the ruins left by Cyclone Chido, people from Mayotte, off the eastern coast of Africa, are calling to deport the undocumented immigrants who had settled there from neighboring islands.
Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte led the minute’s silence France is holding a day of national mourning after Cyclone Chido devastated its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte earlier this month. French President Emmanuel Macron led Monday’s tribute by holding a minute’s silence for the storm’s victims. He called for the nationwide […]
Experts say Cyclone Chido was fueled by warm Indian Ocean temperatures driven by climate change. Cyclone Chido killed at least 94 people in Mozambique in its deadly rampage through the Indian Ocean last week, the country’s disaster management agency said Sunday, raising a previous death toll of 76. The cyclone, which devastated the French island […]
The swirling wind and rain hit an area where a yearslong insurgent conflict had already forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes.
Hundreds are feared dead after the storm razed entire neighborhoods in Mayotte, a series of islands off the eastern coast of Africa, before unleashing its destructive force on Mozambique.
The official death toll so far is 14, but there are fears that the number killed in the French territory by Tropical Cyclone Chido could be much higher.
Watch: Cars smashed and walls knocked down following Mayotte cyclone The search for survivors on the Mayotte archipelago continued on Sunday after a cyclone devastated the French Indian Ocean territory. It is feared the eventual death toll could stretch into the thousands once the damage is fully assessed and with rescue workers still working to […]
France’s Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte has been struck by the worst cyclone to hit the islands in nearly a century. At least two people were reportedly killed when Cyclone Chido made landfall on Saturday, causing wind gusts of more than 225km/h (140mph), and it is feared more may have died. French President Emmanuel Macron […]
The storm, the equivalent of a Category 4, was moving toward East Africa’s coast on Sunday after killing several people in Mayotte, a French archipelago.
