{"id":33145,"date":"2017-03-11T12:47:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T12:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/cyclone-enawo-madagascar-death-toll-rises-to-38\/"},"modified":"2017-03-11T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T12:47:00","slug":"cyclone-enawo-madagascar-death-toll-rises-to-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/cyclone-enawo-madagascar-death-toll-rises-to-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Enawo: Madagascar death toll rises to 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{At least 38 people are now known to have died when Cyclone Enawo struck Madagascar this week.}<\/p>\n<p>Another 180 people were injured and 53,000 displaced when the cyclone hit the country&#8217;s north-east on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials revised the death toll and number of injured on Friday, having originally reported that just four people had lost their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Enawo diminished in strength after making landfall, and has been downgraded to a tropical depression.<\/p>\n<p>But not before the cyclone destroyed roads and cut off communications to the north-eastern Antalaha district.<\/p>\n<p>It dumped 12 inches of rain across the region in 12 hours on Tuesday, with winds reaching up to 300km\/h (185mph).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Friday, Thierry Venty, executive secretary of the National Bureau of Risk and Disaster Management, said: &#8220;The damage is enormous wherever the cyclone has gone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18713 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_95110640_671362b3-2b3e-4f21-b838-e626a5019aaa.jpg\" alt=\"The death toll has risen in Madagascar. Pictured: Flooding in the capital\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{At least 38 people are now known to have died when Cyclone Enawo struck Madagascar this week.} Another 180 people were injured and 53,000 displaced when the cyclone hit the country&#8217;s north-east on Tuesday. Officials revised the death toll and number of injured on Friday, having originally reported that just four people had lost their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33145"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33145"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}