Antananarivo: Twenty-nine people died and more than 80,000 were affected after Tropical Cyclone Ava tore through Madagascar last week, authorities said on Monday.

Seventeen people died on Monday, after a house crumbled following a mudslide in the Ivory suburb, south-east of the capital Antananarivo.

"On a national scale, the provisional toll is 29 dead, 22 missing, 17,170 displaced and 83,023 affected," the National Bureau for Risk and Catastrophe Management said in a statement.

The cyclone, which made landfall on Friday morning, lashed the eastern part of the African island off Mozambique with violent winds and heavy rains before moving off the territory on Saturday night.

The cyclone caused flash flooding in the capital Antananarivo and the port city of Toamasina and in the eastern town of Tamatave. Several homes were without power and roads cut off by felled trees.

Madagascar, one of the world's poorest countries, is regularly hit by cyclones.

In March 2017, Cyclone Enawo killed at least 78 people.</s>At least 29 people died and over 83,000 were affected after a cyclone hit eastern Madagascar over the weekend, authorities said on Monday. Twenty-two people were reported missing, according to AFP.

The tropical cyclone, Ava, passed through the Indian Ocean island on Friday and Saturday, with wind speeds of 140-190 km per hour.

“On a national scale, the provisional toll is 29 dead, 22 missing, 17,170 displaced and 83,023 affected,” the National Bureau for Risk and Catastrophe Management said.

The cyclone caused flash flooding in Madagascar’s Capital Antananarivo and the port city of Toamasina. Several homes were without power and roads were blocked by damaged trees.

Vanilla producing areas on the island were unaffected, Georges Geeraerts, the president of the Group of the Vanilla Exporters, told Reuters. Madagascar produces nearly half of the world’s vanilla output, and production was affected when Cyclone Enawo killed 78 people in March 2017.</s>A cyclone that hit eastern Madagascar over the weekend killed at least 29 people and injured three others while two people were reported missing, authorities said on Monday.

Tropical Cyclone Ava passed through Madagascar on Friday and Saturday, hitting mostly the eastern coast of the island with wind speeds of between 140-190 kph (87-119 mph).

“The provisional report of cyclone Ava hitting Madagascar, (shows) 29 people were killed,” Melisa Venance, Communications Officer of the National Office of Risk and Disaster Management, said.

The administrative region of Haute Matsiatra, located 400 km (250 miles) south of Antananarivo, said that among those killed were eight people from a family, who had been at a funeral vigil on Sunday when their house was hit by a landslide.

“The bodies were searched for all night, and the corpses of eight people, including an 11-month-old baby, and the body of the deceased were found under rubble on Monday morning,” the post said.

The National Office of Risk and Disaster Management had earlier on Monday put the dead at at least six, and that more than 13,000 people were displaced by the cyclone.

Also more than 16,000 pupils had classes suspended until Thursday, due to flooding and risk of landslides.

In March 2017, Cyclone Enawo struck Madagascar, killing at least 78 people on its vanilla-producing northeastern coast.

Enawo damaged around 30 per cent of the crop in the world’s biggest producer, which accounts for nearly half of the world’s crop.

But Georges Geeraerts, the president of the Group of the Vanilla exporters, said the cyclone Ava had not touched vanilla-producing areas and there had been “no impact” on production.</s>A few days after cyclone Ava made landfall on Madagascar, its devastating impact is starting to become clear.

The tropical storm hit the island country off the southeastern coast of Africa on Friday and Saturday, killing at least 29 people nationwide and forcing more than 17,000 off their homes.

A statement by the National Bureau for Risk and Catastrophe Management said that 22 people were still missing by Monday. Overall, Ava affected more than 83,000 people.

The cyclone struck the eastern part of Madagascar the hardest. There, towns flooded and buildings collapsed. Roads were also damaged and communications were knocked out.

"There was a huge amount of rainfall and very strong winds. As a result, houses have collapsed and buildings have fallen on top of people," Samantha Cameron, an aid worker, told Al Jazeera from the southcentral city of Fianarantsoa.

"A lot of the roads have been cut off and some emergency measures have been taken to rebuild the main road between here and the capital, Antananarivo. But progress has been slow," added Cameron, who works for Feedback Madagascar, an international group focused on poverty reduction in the country.

Cameron said that at least 16 in five municipalities were believed to had been destroyed.

"Some towns are still flooded and the phone network is down, which makes communicating with these places even harder."

Madagascar, the world's fourth-largest island, is regularly hit by cyclones between the months of November and April.

In March 2017, tropical cyclone Enawo slammed into the northeast of the country, killing at least 80 people displacing almost a quarter of a million.

"Enawo was the strongest cyclone to hit Madagascar in 13 years, with winds of 230kph, the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane", said Al Jazeera meteorologist Steff Gaulter .

Gaulter said the heavy downpours brought by Ava led to mudslides and flooding in Madagascar, while on the neighbouring island nation of La Reunion, the capital of Saint-Denis was drenched by 50mm of rain.

Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in the world, with its Gross Domestic Product ranking 164th out of 175 countries, according to the World Bank.

Cameron said that a destructive storm like Ava meant that the country's impoverished citizens would now have to face further challenges.

"Crops are destroyed and roads are inaccessible," she said.

"An event like this is felt even more by the population because they have less economic possibilities to recover," added Cameron.

"But the sun came out today, so we are happy the worst of the storm has passed."</s>More than 13,000 people are displaced and schools are shut due to flooding and risk of landslides

ANTANANARIVO, Jan 8 (Reuters) - A cyclone that hit eastern Madagascar over the weekend killed at least 29 people and injured three others while two people were reported missing, authorities said on Monday.

 Tropical Cyclone Ava passed through Madagascar on Friday and Saturday, hitting mostly the eastern coast of the island with wind speeds of between 140-190 kph (87-119 mph).

Read more on the Thomson Reuters Foundation</s>Antananarivo, Jan 9 (IANS) Twenty nine people were killed by cyclone Ava that hit Madagascar from Friday to Sunday, officials said on Monday.

The National Office of Risks and Disasters Management (BNGRC) said in its provisional report that 22 people are still missing, while 17,170 have been displaced.

Five national roads were cut while 17 health centers were destroyed, Xinhua reported.

BNGRC said in the report that 3,191 hectares of rice fields are totally flooded in the capital Madagascar.

The cyclone hit the eastern part of Madagascar on Friday and left the country on Sunday by continuing its trajectory to the southeast off the country with an average speed of 15 km per hour.</s>A cyclone that hit eastern Madagascar over the weekend killed at least 29 people and injured three others while two people were reported missing, authorities said on Monday. Tropical Cyclone Ava passed through Madagascar on Friday and Saturday, hitting mostly the eastern coast of the island with wind speeds of between 140-190 kph (87-119 mph). […]

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This post was syndicated from The Herald Nigeria Newspaper. Click here to read the full text on the original website.</s>The death toll from a cyclone in Madagascar has risen to 25, with a dozen people still missing.

The office of the president said Cyclone Ava also displaced more than 17,000 people on the Indian Ocean island over the weekend.

The government said the danger has passed and all cyclone alerts have been lifted.

The island nation was hit hard by a cyclone in March that left at least 50 people dead and damaged the Sava region in the north-east, which produces about half of the world's vanilla.</s>The U.N. humanitarian agency says the death toll from a cyclone in Madagascar has reached 33.

A statement on Wednesday cites Malagasy authorities and says another 22 people remain missing.

Tropical Cyclone Ava struck the Indian Ocean island over the weekend, causing the evacuation of more than 24,000 people.

The new statement says more than 34,000 children are out of school and road access to some areas in the country's south has been cut off.</s>The torrential rains that accompanied last week’s passage of Cyclone Ava on the eastern part of the island of Madagascar left 29 people dead and more than 80,000 victims, according to a new report released Monday evening by the Malagasy authorities.

“At the national level, the provisional assessment reports 29 deaths, 22 missing persons, 17,170 internally displaced persons and 83,023 disaster victims,“the National Bureau of Disaster Risk and Disaster Management (BNGRC) said in a statement.

Seventeen of the victims died on Monday as a result of a landslide that caused a house to collapse in the town of Ivory, southeast of the capital of Antananarivo.

The cyclone hit Madagascar on Friday morning, before sweeping the eastern part of the Big Island and leaving the territory on Saturday evening.

Severe winds and torrential rains caused many rivers to overflow in the east of the island and caused major flooding, particularly in Tamatave (east) and the lower reaches of Antananarivo.

Many communities were left without electricity and roads were cut off.

Madagascar, one of the poorest countries in the world, is regularly affected by cyclones. By March 2017, Enawo had killed at least 78 people.

Over the past ten years, Madagascar has been hit by forty-five cyclones and tropical storms.
At least 29 people are dead and 22 are missing in the aftermath of a strong tropical cyclone striking Madagascar.