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Severe tropical storm expected to weaken
TROPICAL storm Alvaro expected to affect parts of southern Africa is now weakening and is expected to exit into the Indian Ocean today, but its parting gift to Zimbabwe will be some rainfall in the so...Published: 03 Jan 2024 at 05:27hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe braces for another cyclone
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it has escalated its preparedness as Cyclone Alvaro swilled off the Mozambique coast.The Tropical storm formed off the Mozambican coast near Beira and headed towards ...Published: 03 Jan 2024 at 05:24hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
BCC pins hope on tropical cyclones
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC), which is struggling to supply water to residents due to depleted water levels at its major supply dams, is now pinning its hope on the predicted tropical cyclones likely t...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tropical storm Freddy on the rebound
Tropical storm Freddy, the longest-lived tropical cyclone on record which hit Madagascar, southern Mozambique and Zimbabwe in the third and fourth weeks of last month before returning to sea, is far f...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 05:20hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Freddy kills 2 people in Zimbabwe
CYCLONE Freddy, which had been anticipated to cause havoc in the country and parts of southern Africa has killed two people and blown off several roofs in Chimanimani and Chipinge, the country's Metro...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 07:40hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe schools to remain closed until Tuesday
SCHOOLS in provinces that are likely to be affected by Cyclone Freddy might be forced to remain closed until Tuesday as the affected areas are expected to receive heavy rains of over 65mm from today u...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 07:02hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe readies for Cyclone Freddy
Reports from Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Climate Services Centre indicate that the cyclone, which hit Madagascar on Tuesday night, is expected to make landfall in the region, includi...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:08hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Schools shut as Cyclone Freddy approaches Zimbabwe
As the fringes of Tropical Storm Freddy reached Chipinge and Chimanimani yesterday, adding to the already heavy rain and lightning that earlier in the week struck and killed one person, Zimbabwe went ...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:01hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Meteorological Services Department warns of sixth cyclone
THE sixth south-west Indian Ocean cyclone of the present season, Cyclone Freddy, could possibly move into the Mozambique Channel today, although it was still about 1,250 km east of Madagascar yesterda...Published: 21 Feb 2023 at 05:54hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is safe from tropical storms - Dingani, Freddy
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) says the country is safe for now from tropical storms Dingani and Freddy which are evolving and intensifying some 4 600km away in the Indian Ocean....Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 19:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Batsirai death toll rises to 80
The death toll from Tropical Cyclone Batsirai has risen to 80, Madagascar's authorities said Wednesday, releasing data from the regions hardest-hit by the storm that left bodies buried under their col...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malawi faces 6-month power cuts
Malawi's main power station stopped operating after the Chikwawa Dam was damaged by the heavy rains following the landfall of tropical storm Ana on 24 January.The country is expected to go thr...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Zambia and SA record maize surplus
DESPITE the good rains received in the last cropping season, an estimated 47,6 million people are in need of food aid in Southern Africa with Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa being among the few stat...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Storms wreck nearly 10 000 homes in Zimbabwe
NEARLY 10 000 homes in Zimbabwe were destroyed by cyclones Chalane and Eloise, which swept across parts of the country over the past few weeks.This comes as the UN International Organisation o...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 18:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe, Mozambique worse affected by climate change'
ZIMBABWE and Mozambique are among the worst affected countries by climate change after Cyclone Idai in 2019 hit the two countries, resulting in loss of lives and infrastructure.This was reveal...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South braces for Tropical Cyclone
CONTINUOUS heavy and destructive rain is expected in Matebeleland South, Masvingo and Manicaland when Tropical Cyclone Eloise hits the country tomorrow. The rains will be coupled with strong w...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Heavy rains, strong winds expected
Heavy rains in excess of 50 millimetres associated with strong winds are expected in Manicaland, Masvingo and Matabeleland tomorrow as moderate Tropical Storm Eloise which is currently in the northern...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 16:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Eloise intensifies to a Severe Tropical Cyclone
The Tropical System Eloise has strengthened and is now a severe tropical storm and there are indications of further intensification in the next 24 hours just before it makes a land fall south of Beira...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 16:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Eloise projected to bring large amounts of rain onto Beitbridge
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has revealed that a new potential Tropical...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 15:44hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
UK donates US$340,000 towards Chalane storm
THE United Kingdom (UK) government has donated US$340 000 towards tropical storm Chalane victims in hard hit areas.British ambassador to Zimbabwe Melanie Robinson announced the donation in a s...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chalane recedes, no major damage recorded
Tropical Depression Chalane, which entered Zimbabwe on Wednesday, further weakened and finally dissipated with its remnants moving into Botswana, leaving minimal damage and no loss of life or injuries...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Weakened Chalane lashes Zimbabwe
Tropical Depression Chalane moved into Zimbabwe early yesterday and is now moving across the country towards Botswana, losing strength as it downgrades from a tropical storm to a tropical depression. ...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Weakened Chalane hits Zimbabwe
Tropical Depression Chalane moved into Zimbabwe early yesterday and is now moving across the country towards Botswana, losing strength as it downgrades from a tropical storm to a tropical depression....Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 07:58hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
WATCH: Govt outlines Tropical Depression Chalane Battle Strategy
Government says it has stepped up efforts to safeguard communities in the wake of Tropical Depression Chalane, which has already made landfall in Zimbabwe.At a news conference in Harare on Wed...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 07:50hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Alert raised as Chalane makes landfall
The Eastern Highlands has started receiving continuous light rains as a result of the former Tropical Storm Chalane which is now an overland Tropical Depression with the public urged to watch out for ...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 16:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Heavy rains, strong winds expected in the next few hours
The Meteorological Services Department has advised that the Tropical Depression Chalane which made landfall north of Beira in early hours of today and started moving westward towards Zimbabwe, has red...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 16:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe braces for impact as weakening Chalane sweeps in
Zimbabwe braced for impact on Wednesday as Cyclone Chalane swept in from Mozambique, although with reduced severity.Hundreds of people - some still living in temporary accommodation after the ...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 16:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Red Cross activates actions ahead of Cyclone Chalane
THE Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS) and Mozambique Red Cross have come up with a cocktail of strategies meant to minimise the impact of Cyclone Chalane on communities.Cyclone Chalane is toda...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt starts evacuation as Cyclone Chalane approaches
The civil protection unit (CPU) in Zimbabwe has started evacuating people in the eastern parts of the country most vulnerable to tropical storm Chalane, which is expected to make landfall on Wednesday...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 18:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Cyclone Chalane to bring continuous rains'
Tropical Depression Chalane is now in the Mozambique Channel and expected to intensify back into a tropical storm bringing near continuous rains over most of Zimbabwe from tomorrow to Friday with heav...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Chalane heads for Mozambique Channel
The tropical depression, identified as Chalane when it hits tropical storm status, passed over Madagascar over the weekend, bringing heavy rain as expected to the north and centre of the island and al...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ministries blocked from outsourcing legal advice
Thirteen tropical cyclones formed in the south-west Indian Ocean during the last rainy season and had some effect on southern Africa weather although only three made a landfall. The cyclones w...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Kenneth: Zimbabwe not in danger
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has dismissed messages circulating on social media that Cyclone Kenneth will hit Zimbabwe. In a statement, MSD refuted claims that Cyclone Kenneth ...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CPU warns of Cyclone Kenneth, landfall
The Civil Protection Unit (CPU) has issued a warning of a tropical storm that is developing into a cyclone named Cyclone Kenneth, which is projected to make a landfall in Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi ...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe wheat trucks finally leave Beira
THE dozens of wheat-laden trucks that had been stuck at Beira port in Mozambique following Cyclone Idai devastation more than a fortnight ago are said to be finally heading for Zimbabwe.Grain ...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fuels supplies resume
FEARS of a looming fuel shortage in Zimbabwe have abated following completion of repairs to the pump house at Beira which was damaged during the violent Cyclone Idai storm in Mozambique.The cy...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Aid finally reaches Zimbabwe's 'death' village
Surprised members of a cyclone-hit community in Zimbabwe paused from retrieving and burying their dead to welcome the first humanitarian aid from the outside world as it arrived nearly two weeks after...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 20:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt set to ferry fuel by road
GOVERNMENT is considering bringing in fuel by road after Cyclone Idai flattened Mozambique's port city of Beira linking the country's fuel pipeline.The port, which houses the control room whic...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rocks from mountain crush huts in Zimbabwe
Thirty-year-old Chipo Dhliwayo was sleeping in her hut when the devastating Cyclone Idai landfall rolled huge boulders over whole villages in Zimbabwe's Chimanimani district in Manicaland province las...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 19:02hrs | 1 | by City Press
Hundreds evacuated amid fears of Cyclone Idai induced dam burst in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean authorities began evacuating residents from the cyclone-hit town of Chimanimani on Sunday after flood waters weakened a dam wall.The area is among those hit by cyclone Idai, which h...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 18:46hrs | 2 | by dpa
The storm that knew no boundaries
TROPICAL Cyclone Idai has made headlines across southern Africa throughout the month of March. Lingering in the Mozambique Channel at tropical cyclone intensity for six days, the storm made landfall i...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Jennifer Fitchett
Students recount sleeping with corpses #CycloneIdai
A SOMBRE atmosphere engulfed Paradise Park in Marondera yesterday during the burial of one of the students from St Charles Lwanga High School, Munashe Jena, who succumbed to Cyclone Idai-induced injur...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe comes to terms with grim scale of damage
ZIMBABWEANS are slowly coming to full terms with the horrific scale of devastation that Cyclone Idai wreaked in the country — amid confirmation late yesterday that torrential rains and landfalls had...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 18:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Idai a disaster to the region
Intense Tropical Cyclone Idai was the strongest tropical cyclone to strike Mozambique since Jokwe in 2008 and the deadliest tropical cyclone worldwide in 2019. The tenth named storm and re...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 12:24hrs | 1 | by Enos Denhere
Zimbabwe's disaster response is a disaster
There are few things that reveal the priorities of a government better than a national disaster. In Zimbabwe, Cyclone Idai, which had left at least 65 people dead and more than 100 missing in its wake...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 08:41hrs | | by newZWire
11 719 affected as Cyclone Idai kills 98
AT least 98 people have been confirmed dead, while 102 others were injured, with 11 719 affected in various ways by Cyclone Idai which hit mainly parts of Manicaland province since last week. ...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans struggle with storm floods
The death toll from cyclone Idai continues to rise as southern African countries struggle to deal with the devastating aftermath of the torrential downpours.The powerful storm has killed at le...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 08:08hrs | | by Al Jazeera
Zimbabwe boarding school hit by deadly cyclone landslide, s pupils dead
Two boarding school pupils are among 31 people to have been killed in eastern Zimbabwe by Cyclone Idai.They were asleep in their dormitory when rocks swept down a mountain and knocked over a w...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 08:02hrs | | by BBC
Mozambique cyclone cuts power to South Africa
At least 43 people died in central Mozambique and Zimbabwe after a tropical cyclone tore through the southern African nations, knocking out electricity and phone networks and cutting power to South Af...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 13:32hrs | | by Bloomberg
Cyclone Idai spreads into Zimbabwe
Tropical Cyclone Idai, which made landfall in Mozambique Thursday evening, has damaged property and crops in Manicaland Province, with more devastating effects feared when it intensifies and spreads t...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
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