Death toll from storm Eloise rises, with two reported in SA
Homes and crops in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini and SA have been destroyed, with tens of thousands of people displaced in Mozambique especially
28 January 2021 - 15:46
Maputo — The death toll from Storm Eloise has risen to 21 across Southern Africa after Mozambique and Eswatini reported a further five and two people killed, respectively.
Eloise, at the time a cyclone, slammed into Mozambique's central port city of Beira and surroundings — an area still recovering from the devastation of Cyclone Idai in 2019 — on Saturday. It then weakened to a tropical storm and moved inland to cause heavy rain and flooding across Southern Africa...
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