Some 1.6 million people in Rakhine, Chin, Magway, Sagaing, and Kachin states are in dire need of assistance after Mocha’s 250 kilometre per hour wind gusts destroyed homes, farmland and livestock. Speaking from hard-hit Rakhine State capital Sittwe, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative in Myanmar, Titon Mitra, said that time was of the essence as food reserves…
In Myanmar, the UN appealed on Tuesday for $333 million to assist 1.6 million of the most vulnerable people, many of whom have lost their homes as the cyclone hit the west of the country over a week ago. The UN’s top aid official in the country, Ramanathan Balakrishnan, told reporters in Geneva that the…
With coastal winds recorded at up to 250 kilometers per hour making landfall off the Bay of Bengal, the storm tore through villages in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, leaving villagers to piece together their ruined homes while they wait for aid and support. According to news reports, Mocha ripped off roofs, smashed fishing boats, uprooted trees…
OCHA said that communities there had spent the day cleaning up, and counting the cost of the storm, categorized as Extremely Severe, when it smashed into Myanmar’s western states and regions on Sunday, with guests as strong as 250km per hour – continuing to lash some areas the day after, with heavy rain. Authorities and humanitarian aid…
DHAKA: The powerful Cyclone Mocha hit the coasts of Myanmar and Bangladesh, disrupting daily life. According to the report of a foreign media news agency, heavy rains and strong winds of 195 km per hour due to Samandi storm Mocha disrupted the normal life. In view of the category 5 storm in the Bay of…
Photos courtesy of Foreign Media Cyclone ‘Mocha’, formed in the Bay of Bengal, hit the coasts of Myanmar and Bangladesh. According to a foreign news agency, trees were uprooted by heavy rains and strong winds due to the category 5 storm. Around 3 lakh people have already been evacuated from Bangladesh in view of Cyclone…
The very severe cyclonic storm is quickly strengthening in the Bay of Bengal, threatening the region with violent winds, flooding, and landslides that could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of the world’s most vulnerable people, said Clare Nullis, of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The agency’s regional specialized meteorological centre in New Delhi forecast that…
