Mozambique: Cyclone Dikeledi kills five in Nampula

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Mozambique: Cyclone Dikeledi kills five in Nampula

4:07 CAT | 16 Jan 2025

Image: Instituto Nacional de Gestão e Redução do Risco de Desastres - INGD

The passage of Cyclone Dikeledi has caused the death of five people in the northern Mozambican province of Nampula.

According to Luísa Meque, chairperson of the country’s relief agency, the National Disaster Management Institute (INGD), speaking to reporters on Tuesday, in Nampula city, Dikeledi also affected over 35,000 people, corresponding to over 8,000 households.

Meque explained that these people died when the walls of their houses collapsed. She called on people living in areas at risk and prone to flooding to use resilient material when building houses.

“Our work team, together with the affected communities, is going to study better ideas for building houses that are resistant to climate impacts, because we’ve had cyclones that destroy almost everything. That’s why we need to find definitive solutions to reduce the negative impacts”, she said.

The cyclone destroyed 2,903 houses and damaged 6,089. It also destroyed 73 classrooms in 35 schools, affecting 2,562 pupils and 40 teachers. Three health units were destroyed.

Other damage caused by Dikeledi includes the toppling of 82 electricity pylons and the flooding of 127 hectares of cultivated land, Meque said.

By Thursday morning, the cyclone had left the Mozambique Channel and was heading eastwards into the colder waters of the Indian Ocean. It no longer poses a threat to either Mozambique or Madagascar.

Tropical Cyclone #Dikeledi is passing well south of #Madagascar & will transition to an extra-tropical storm over the next couple of days. Monitoring the southern Mozambique Channel for new tropical development next week. pic.twitter.com/GO8n8Jf7D7

— Jason Nicholls 💙 (@jnmet) January 16, 2025

Cyclone #Dikeledi has left 5 dead and has impacted almost 40,000 people in #Mozambique‘s Nampula province. The National Institute for Disaster Management reports 6000+ houses have been damaged or destroyed, as well as 3 health facilities & 35 schools, affecting 2,562 students. pic.twitter.com/YMhtmmpDGn

— UNICEF Moçambique (@UNICEF_Moz) January 16, 2025