In the districts of Luabo and Chinde, in the province of Zambezia, Mozambique, roads are cut and boats are not circulating, due to the flooding of the Zambezi River. Tropical Cyclone Freddy killed 165 people in Mozambique.
More than 9,000 people are isolated and without humanitarian assistance in the districts of Luabo and Chinde, in Zambezia province, central Mozambique, following tropical cyclone Freddy, authorities said on Wednesday, the 5th April.
The representative of the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGD) in Zambezia province, Helder da Costa, told public broadcaster Radio Mozambique that food aid cannot reach communities in the districts of Luabo and Chinde.
The roads are cut and the boats are not circulating, due to the flooding of the Zambezi River, explained Costa.
Freddy is already one of the longest-lasting and longest-traveling cyclones in recent decades, having traveled more than 10,000 kilometers since it formed off northern Australia on February 4 and crossed the entire Indian Ocean to southern Africa.
It first hit the east coast of Madagascar on February 21 and returned to the island on March 5, where it left a trail of 17 dead and 300,000 people affected.
In Mozambique, the cyclone first hit on February 24 and touched land again in mid-March, causing at least 165 deaths, according to the official tally.
The storm killed a total of 605 people in Malawi, Mozambique, and Madagascar.