Mozambican Electricity has already invested €1.7 million after cyclone Freddy

Mozambique’s electricity company (EDM) has already invested €1.7 million to restore the electricity grid in central Mozambique after the destruction caused two months ago by cyclone Freddy, the company said in a statement today.

“Zambézia “was the province most affected by Cyclone Freddy, which left 275,004 customers in nine districts” without power, it said.

Today the supply was reestablished to some more locations in the region, in an ongoing work so that “by the end of this month, the situation will be normalized”.

“The rain and strong winds destroyed and flooded numerous electrical infrastructures, a fact that conditioned the restoration work,” explained EDM.

Cyclone Freddy is part of a set of extreme phenomena scientists believe are gaining strength due to rising global temperatures.

It was one of the longest cyclones on record (37 days between February 5 and March 14) and the one that traveled the furthest, exceeding 10,000 kilometers, since it formed off northern Australia and crossed the entire Indian Ocean to southern Africa.

The storm caused hundreds of deaths and widespread destruction in central Mozambique and Malawi.

With information from Lusa

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