CYCLONE IDAI KILLER IN MOZAMBIQUE, ZIMBABWE AND MALAWI – COMPASSION OF A SADDENED AND AFFECTED CIMUVISA-ACP

Tropical Cyclone IDAI, one of the most powerful in the Indian Ocean (very cyclonic area), has been causing devastating and deadly effects since March 14^th 2019, particularly in Mozambique, but also in Zimbabwe and Malawi, southern African countries.  As of March 18, 2019, high winds (190 km/h) and floods by heavy rains caused considerable damage with more than half a thousand people killed and many missing.

CIMUVISA associates itself with the pain of these bruised and bereaved brother nations and expresses its deepest sympathy to them. It pays tribute to the rescue, emergency, resuscitation and security forces mobilized.

Disasters in Africa, particularly natural disasters, similarly follow one another under the helpless gaze of Africans, the Regional Organizations of the African Union and the International Community: the UN (WHO) and the EU in particular.

Since its inception in 1996, CIMUVISA has always advocated for the strengthening of African capacities for prevention, forecasting (warning observatories, etc.), intervention and management of emergencies from every day to exceptional through a Trans-African Emergency and Resuscitation Fund (TAUR) endowed with a dedicated Solidarity Fund and benefiting from the expertise of the Pan-African Society of Emergency Medicine, Disasters and Health Vigilances. This is a wishful thinking thus far; and yet, Africa and the International Community do not lack the means, but they just don’t make it their priority.

Bibliography

The Book CIMUVISA: Vital Emergencies and Disasters in Africa, From Realities to Perspectives (Educational, Management and Health Research Project) by Dr. Pitchaki Frédéric Hemou, Editions Universitaires Européennes (European University Editions) and currently under translation by Legal and Language Consulting Ltd. in Lomé ( info@llctogo.com / www.llctogo.com).

We are therefore constantly called upon for a real situational analysis and a debate in the form of a round table discussion at the next CIMUVISA’s Scientific and International Solidarity Forum from July 22 to 31, 2019 in Kara and Lomé.

Please pass on the message.

 

Dr. Pitchaki Frédéric HEMOU  

Coordinator of CIMUVISA-ACP WWW.CIMUVISA.ORG.