Anadarko, Dangote in Path of Cyclone Heading for Southern Africa
Anadarko, Dangote in Path of Cyclone Heading for Southern Africa
(Bloomberg) -- Tropical Cyclone Kenneth, a Category 4 storm bearing down on Mozambique, is set to make landfall later on Thursday.
The hurricane will be the second to hit southern Africa in two months, after Cyclone Idai battered the region in March and left more than 1,000 people dead in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. The weather agency in Tanzania has also warned of possible flooding in the storm’s wake.
#CycloneKenneth is extremely dangerous. It is forecast at Cat 4 equivalent on landfall Thurs in northern #Mozamibique (near #Tanzania) in an area which has seen NO tropical cyclone since start of satellite era, per WMO regional centre @meteofrance La Reunion. #Metop sat image. pic.twitter.com/karDayVxpT
â WMO | OMM (@WMO) April 25, 2019
Anadarko Petroleum Corp., which is developing a multibillion dollar gas project off Mozambique’s coast, and Dangote Cement Plc, Africa’s largest producer of the building material, are among companies that may be affected by the storm.
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--With assistance from Matthew Hill and Brian K. Sullivan.
To contact the reporters on this story: Borges Nhamire in Maputo at bnhamire@bloomberg.net;Ken Karuri in Dar es Salaam at kkaruri@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin at asguazzin@bloomberg.net, Paul Richardson, John Viljoen
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