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Situation In Numbers
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886,400 affected people
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8 provinces affected
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347,800 ha of farmland damaged
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165 deaths reported
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173,600 houses damaged
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213 accommodation centres operational, housing 163,456 people
WFP response
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27,300 people have received food assistance
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Up to 50,000 people to be assisted in the coming days
Highlights
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Cholera cases are rising in seven of the affected provinces and have already crossed the 10,500 mark.
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Through cash-based transfers, WFP has provided 7-day rations (covering 100 percent of people’s daily kcal requirements) for 24,500 people, hosted in accommodation centres and 30-days rations (covering 75 percent of daily kcal needs) for 2,700 people returning to the community.
Situation Update
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Cyclone Freddy has dissipated and no cyclonic activity is forecast over the next five days, however moderate rainfall continues, and risk of additional flooding remains. Continued rainfall in Malawi is also expected to eventually impact the connecting rivers in Mozambique.
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Access constraints continue in many affected parts of the country including in Zambezia, Tete and Sofala provinces, and last mile connectivity is still limited to four-wheel drive vehicles or even just via boat or air. WFP is leveraging all logistics assets to enable last mile connectivity not just for its own programmes but also for the humanitarian community at large through the logistics working group.
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The humanitarian community is working on a joint flash appeal to mobilise resources for the Cyclone Freddy emergency response scale-up.
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Cholera cases on the rise are also being reported in accommodation centres and thus as a preventative measure to curb the spread of the disease the government is closing centres.
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Over half the number of affected people live in the province of Zambezia.