The United Nations and aid partners are responding to the deadly tropical cyclone Dikeledi battering southeast Africa with high winds and heavy rain.
More than 5,200 people were directly affected, nearly 1,300 homes flooded and 5 health centres were damaged.
According to a statement from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN partners began working with local authorities after the cyclone made landfall on January 11 2025, in northern Madagascar, the same area hit by the deadly cyclone Chido nearly a month ago.
Humanitarian partners distributed water treatment supplies and water, sanitation and hygiene kits.
OCHA’s latest ReliefWeb status alert reported that Dikeledi’s centre was over the Mozambique Channel, approximately 75 km east of the coast of Nampula province in northeastern Mozambique.
It passed just south of Mayotte, the island where Cyclone Chido inflicted heavy death and destruction. The government of Madagascar reported that three people were killed and more than 350 displaced to several temporary sites.
