GENEVA — The World Meteorological Organization warns that Tropical Cyclone Hidaya, which is projected to make landfall in Tanzania and Kenya this weekend, threatens to worsen the humanitarian crisis triggered by torrential rains in these and other heavily flooded countries in East Africa.
“Hidaya is the first documented system to have reached tropical cyclone status in this part of the world. We are not talking about Sudan. We are talking about lower and East Africa,' WMO spokesperson Clare Nullis told journalists in Geneva on Friday.
“It is historically significant. It is also going to have a very big impact, and specifically on Tanzania, where the ground is already absolut
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