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Turn immediately left after the arrivals hall at tiny Beira airport and you will find the humanitarian operational hub – a sweaty, airless room except for one door that leads on to the runway. It is buzzing with activity.
Radio broadcasters in Mozambique are at the heart of the community, spreading information that can save lives during a natural disaster.
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The phone call came at 02:00 am. Daniel Cooper, Head of Aid for the global, mobile satellite communications provider Inmarsat, was boarding a flight from Dubai.
Antonio Jose Beleza of Mozambique’s Institute of Disaster Management (INGC) saw the potential of drones in emergencies and has been implementing the technology following Cyclone Idai. Read the feature story https://bit.ly/2ZPFyWD
The Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) has officially been activated and a system-wide L3 emergency has been declared in Mozambique following Cyclone Idai.
Dear ETC colleagues,
You are invited to participate in the Global Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) Teleconference on the Cyclone Idai emergency which will be held on Monday 15 April to discuss the current situation and latest developments.
Tropical Cyclone Idai, the strongest storm to hit Mozambique since 2000, made landfall in Beira on March 14, 2019.
On 25 April 2019, Tropical Cyclone Kenneth made landfall in the Cabo Delgado province of northern Mozambique as a Category 4 storm with winds of up to 200 km/h. Mozambique’s National Disaster Management Institute (INGC) indicated that 30 000 people have been evacuated from high risk areas.
Tropical Cyclone Idai- a category 3 cyclone- made landfall in Beira, Mozambique’s fourth largest city, on 14 March evening, bringing with it high wind speeds of up to 224km/h and heavy rains.
The World Food Programme (WFP) drone team is helping national authorities assess the areas most affected by Cyclone Kenneth, including Mucojo in northern Mozambique.
In the 11 months since Cyclone Idai barrelled into central Mozambique, devastating lives and destroying critical communications infrastructure, the ETC together with the Mozambique Regulatory Authority (ARECOM) and the National Forum of Community Radi
“You northern hemisphere guys get so excited about stars. At home we get this every night,” says Ryan Twittey, Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) Coordinator for the Cyclone Idai response in Mozambique in his usual say-it-like-it-is way.
Ham radio strengthens emergency telecommunications preparedness in disaster-stricken Mozambique
This story originally appeared on wfp.org
By Elizabeth Millership