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Cyclone leaves 55 000 homeless
12/03/2008 17:14 - (SA)
Maputo - A Mozambican government spokesperson said about 55 000 people lost their houses when cyclone Jokwe hit the northern Mozambican coast at the weekend.
He said that a total of 165 000 people in Mozambique had been affected by the cyclone. The known death toll from the storm now stands at nine.
More than 90 classrooms and about 100 boats had been destroyed by the storm.
Jokwe is now in the south of the Mozambique Channel, where it is weakening, and it is expected to dissipate over the next two days.
It is unlikely on its current course to strike either Mozambique or Madagascar again.
- SAPA
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