Mozambique: Sofala on alert over cyclone Freddy – Watch

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Mozambique: Sofala on alert over cyclone Freddy – Watch

7:33 CAT | 20 Feb 2023

Image: TVM

Sofala is in line for an encounter with Cyclone Freddy, which could hit the Mozambique Channel in the next few days, TVM reports. The National Institute for Disaster Risk Management (INGD) is calling on the public to take precautions and lay in essential goods. Local committees are being urged to start evacuating people from areas liable to flooding.

Intense Tropical Cyclone Freddy is approaching Madagascar and is likely to reach Mozambique, according to National Institute of Meteorology (INAM) forecasts.

READ: Tropical cyclone Freddy expected to hit Mozambique on Friday

The INGD this Monday reports that “prevention work continues in the centre of the country”, while “a delegation from the National Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction (INGD) will travel to Zambézia province this Monday, February 20”.

Intense TC #Freddy is passing N of #Mauritius with outer bands bringing some rain/wind to the island & #Reunion into Tuesday. Landfall in #Madagascar near Mananjay Tuesday evening; life threatening wind/rain expected along the storm path. Second landfall in #Mozambique Friday. pic.twitter.com/0l8JDfJwQo

— Jason Nicholls (@jnmet) February 20, 2023

In Zambézia, INGD president Luísa Celma Meque will supervise the Emergency Operating Committee (COE) and lead work to raise awareness among the public.

Similar activities took place over the weekend in the city of Beira, Sofala province, where Governor Lourenço Bulhaand and an INGD delegation carried out awareness-raising work at the Samora Machel and Sansão Muthemba schools. Conditions for accommodating evacuees at the Public and Municipal Administration Training Institute were also assessed.