The United Nations on Sunday announced that it will be providing a grant of $13 million to Mozambique and Comoros after Cyclone Kenneth battered them.
The $13 million in emergency funds according to the UN is to help provide food and water as well as repair damaged infrastructure.
The UN Humanitarian Chief Mark Lowcock in a statement said “This new allocation of Central Emergency Response Fund funds will help humanitarian partners to scale up the response to address the needs of those most vulnerable in the aftermath of Cyclone Kenneth”.
The World Bank has estimated that countries affected by tropical storms this year will need over $2 billion to recover.
Mozambique for instance is enduring a second cyclone within a period of one month. The first cyclone, Idai led to the death of thousands.
Several others were displaced and were yet to even receive humanitarian assistance. That crisis has now been compounded by the impact of Cyclone Kenneth.
Floods have followed Cyclone Kenneth, cutting off some communities with thousands at risk of displacement.
The United Nations said many of the many of the communities were “run over by” the cyclone like “a bulldozer”.
The Southern and Eastern head of the Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Gemma Connell said efforts are ongoing “to get people the supplies they need”.
She adds that “the weather is still bad, it is still raining. But thankfully the winds have died down.”
#CycloneKennethUpdates :
Destruction caused by Cyclone Kenneth.#CycloneKenneth aka #CycloneMwangi pic.twitter.com/9fYYgUViJN— Mukami Wa Embu ?? (@MukamiWaEmbu) April 26, 2019
Source: Africafeeds.com
