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Traumatized Community in Madagascar Braces for Cyclone Emnati

February 22, 2022

Cyclone Emnati is expected to make landfall on the southeast coast of Madagascar following almost the same path as Cyclone Batsirai. Madagascar is facing a severe cyclone season that has seen Tropical Storm Ana, Cyclone Batsirai, an inter-tropical convergence zone, and most recently Cyclone Dumako, a week ago, hit the island nation. These extreme weather phenomena have left affected communities extremely vulnerable, as their sources of food and livelihoods have been destroyed.

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Cyclone Batsirai: CARE Madagascar Deploys Teams on standby to respond as CARE Mozambique Monitors Developing Situation to Respond

February 4, 2022

Madagascar is bracing for Cyclone Batsirai days after Tropical Storm Ana devastated the Country. The cyclone which formed on 27th January over the Indian ocean is predicted to make landfall in Madagascar on 5th February/tomorrow. Up to 595,000 people could be affected, and 140,000 people displaced as winds are expected to reach 160mph with torrential rainfall.

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NGOs call upon donors to urgently fund Somalia drought crisis

February 2, 2022

We, the undersigned organizations, are deeply concerned for the lives of millions of Somalis facing a severe food crisis and are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. We call upon all donors including institutional donors, corporates, foundations, and individual philanthropic donors to urgently fund the current humanitarian appeal in order to respond to the escalating drought crisis in Somalia before it is too late. 98 percent of the current Somalia humanitarian appeal of 1.46 billion USD has yet to be met and remains severely underfunded.

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Cyclone Ana: Floods cause death, destruction, and power outage across Madagascar, Mozambique, Zambia, and Malawi with more rains on the way

January 28, 2022

Over the past few days, tropical storm Ana has affected hundreds of thousands of people across Southern Africa. The storm caused heavy rains and flooding in Madagascar and Mozambique and left most of Zimbabwe without power over the recent days. It comes on the back of unprecedented rainfall and flooding in neighboring Zambia. 

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Typhoon Rai (Odette) hits the Philippines, 600,000 people left with no homes as Christmas approaches

December 21, 2021

Manila, Philippines, 21 December, 2021 – As Typhoon Rai (Odette) hits southern and central Philippines, the impact of local disaster preparedness and mitigation measures shows the importance of planning for climate shocks amidst a worsening global climate crisis. However, despite these pre-emptive measures, the country's strongest storm of the year still leaves widescale devastation in its path.

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South Sudan: Climate crisis transforms annual floods into catastrophe for hundreds of thousands

December 8, 2021

South Sudan is currently struggling with flood, the intensity of which has not been seen in decades. Entire States have been affected with communities living submerged since the start of the year. Many people in remote areas remain cut off from humanitarian aid, worsening an already critical humanitarian crisis in the country and disrupting humanitarian access to those most in need.

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