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Norwegian Writer Slams ‘Dishonest’ Media For Hiding Truth About Mass Migration

A prominent Norwegian author and media personality has blasted the mainstream press and government officials for hiding harsh realities about mass migration and Islamization from the general public.

Ulf-Arvid Mejlænder, a former journalist himself, penned a scathing op-ed titled, "Say It as It Is," which was surprisingly published by NRK, Norway's government-owned media organization.

Mejlænder called out tactics employed by much of the Western press, asserting that key details about crimes are manipulated or left out completely when the perpetrators are migrants or have foreign backgrounds.

"We rarely get to know who commits gang rape, uses a knife or beats up casual victims in the new Norway," Mejlænder wrote. "I get embarrassed when the media's clouding of criminal ethnicity is so predictable that 'the Norwegian' and 'Norwegian citizen' become the code words for foreign origin."

Mejlænder cited multiple recent examples of misleading coverage of stories involving migrant crime, concluding, "There is no pressure on politicians who repeat their 'sleep in peace' message, citing better integration as the solution to everything."

"The gap between the risk of our multicultural experiment and the storytelling of the mainstream media must not grow larger."

He also pointed out that major cultural and economic shifts are taking place due to Islamic migration, with very little accurate coverage by the press.

"Immigration costs are increasing, cultural conflicts are building up and Islam is gaining more and more space," Mejlænder wrote. "The danger signals of our greatest social change process are clearly visible today, but traditional media show limited interest in exploring them. It weakens the press's relevance and credibility."

"...one has to go mainly to alternative media to gain knowledge about studies that show that anti-Western attitudes and intolerant interpretations of the Qur'an are relatively widespread among Muslims in Western countries."

You can read Mejlænder's full piece with English translation here.

A man sent terror throughout a crowd of more than 500 when he yelled 'Allahu Akbar' at the funeral of a woman killed by her Muslim boyfriend.

(PHOTO: Mauro Ujetto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Boeing shifting spare parts in preparation for Brexit: executive

FILE PHOTO: The Boeing logo is pictured at Congonhas Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil
FILE PHOTO: The Boeing logo is pictured at the Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition fair (LABACE) at Congonhas Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Aug. 14, 2018. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker

February 26, 2019

By Jamie Freed

AVALON, Australia (Reuters) – Boeing Co has been shifting spare parts between its distribution centers in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world in preparation for Brexit, an executive said on Tuesday.

Britain’s potential exit from the European Union without a deal has proven a headache for the global aerospace industry which relies heavily on integrated supply chains and parts distribution centers.

“We are having our spares positioned in the right place,” Ken Shaw, the head of supply chain management for Boeing’s services business, told Reuters at the Australian International Airshow.

“We are continuously looking at the demand signals because we didn’t have to worry about it before between the London distribution center and shipping a part to France. Now we are having to be more purposeful so we are redistributing inventory.”

Airbus SE said this month it had spent tens of millions of euros on stockpiling parts and securing IT systems.

Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC effectively moved the home for its best-known jet engine designs to Germany last month to avoid regulatory delays or sales disruption after Brexit.

Shaw said Brexit was not expected to have much of an impact on Boeing’s manufacturing because its parts from Britain were mostly shipped to the United States and elsewhere rather than continental Europe.

“The underlying supply chain to make it has been a relatively easy thing for us just because of the nature of our product flows,” he said.

“We are in pretty good shape but we have moved some parts around and we have done some redistribution to put things where we needed to just in case. We are about as ready as we can be not knowing what the outcome is going to be.”

Other challenges for Boeing include ensuring suppliers can keep pace with its rapid production expansion plans as it looks to overcome persistent delays on engines and other issues that have hobbled the 737 factory to varying degrees since last summer.

Boeing is currently building 52 of its top-selling 737 aircraft per month at its Seattle-area factory. The manufacturer plans to speed up to 57 planes per month in June if it can smooth out supplier delays, Reuters reported this month, with the potential to later move to 63 a month if suppliers can keep up.

Shaw said Boeing was taking a disciplined approach to production rate increases, both from an airline demand perspective and a parts supply perspective.

“You get to a point where you have to relax a bit and make sure you are at a good spot before you take that next step,” he said. “That is why we do these rate breaks where we will go to a rate and stay there.”

(Reporting by Jamie Freed; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)

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Forex traders fret as sleepy markets slow to calmest in years

FILE PHOTO: U.S. dollars and other world currencies lie in a charity receptacle at Pearson international airport in Toronto
FILE PHOTO: U.S. dollars and other world currencies lie in a charity receptacle at Pearson international airport in Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 13, 2018. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo

April 1, 2019

By Tommy Wilkes and Ritvik Carvalho

LONDON (Reuters) – The $5.1-trillion-a-day foreign exchange market is suffering more than most from central bank decisions to move in tandem and keep interest rates low for longer.

Policymakers moving to press pause on policy tightening in 2019, as well as broadly mixed messages from the biggest economies, have combined to suppress already-low volatility to levels not seen in five years.

Forex traders who look for economic and policy divergences to bet on are struggling to find persuasive reasons for betting on one currency moving much against another. Hedge funds and asset managers are sitting on the sidelines, and daily trading volumes are down by double-digits.

Even a rush into government bonds by panicked investors and increased swings in stocks at the end of March were not enough to shake currencies out of their stupor, fuelling concerns on bank trading desks that generate bigger profits when prices swing more wildly.

Below are four graphics illustrating just how stuck in the doldrums FX markets are.

Volatility fell to its lowest levels since late 2014 in March, according to the Deutsche Bank Currency Volatility Index.

For an interactive version of the below chart, click here https://tmsnrt.rs/2V7E5Iw.

For a graphic on Currency volatility falls below historical average, see – https://tmsnrt.rs/2VdZDDC

The index, which measures three-month implied volatility – a commonly-used measure of expectations of price movements – weighted across major currency pairs, touched levels of 6.22, down from 9 in January.

Averaged out across the first three months of 2019 volatility was slightly higher than previous quarters but the trend is clear: currency markets have become far calmer since 2016.

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Calmness in the world’s most traded currency pair, euro/dollar, was particularly notable after the U.S. Federal Reserve flagged an end to its rate tightening cycle and the European Central Bank followed with its own dovish shift.

Three-month rates of implied volatility touched their lowest since 2014, and barring that year, were near their lowest levels since 2007.

With concerns growing about slowdowns in both economies the exchange rate was pinned into its narrowest ever trading range – of less than four cents this compared to an average quarterly range of around 9 cents. It hit a record 24 cents a decade earlier.

For a graphic on Euro/dollar stuck in narrowest quarterly range on record, see – https://tmsnrt.rs/2WxrsXw

Swings in the dollar against Japan’s yen, traditionally a more volatile exchange rate, haven’t fared much better – three-month implied volatility dropped below 6 in March, levels seen only occasionally in the last three decades.

For a graphic on 3-month implied volatility, see – https://tmsnrt.rs/2HOepOl

Sterling volatility has been more elevated due to Brexit uncertainty and the Turkish lira has also swung sharply, but these have been the outliers.

Traders don’t expect an immediate pick-up in volatility as long as central banks move together and economic data remains weak but not so weak that it sparks a stampede out of riskier assets.

Higher spikes in volatility in other asset classes, as measured by the VIX or “fear index” in equities, or in the U.S. Treasury market, underline investor nerves but have not spilled over into markedly bigger swings in the prices of currencies.

For a graphic on Volatility across asset classes, see – https://tmsnrt.rs/2VaO9AC

(Editing by Gareth Jones)

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Florida firefighters paint home of blind World War II veteran, 89

A blind World War II veteran's home was painted over the weekend by firefighters in Florida who decided to give back to the community in a special way.

William Velez, 89, and his wife were full of gratitude after dozens of members of the Hillsborough County Fire Rescue and their families painted their house on Saturday as part of an event coordinated with Paint Your Heart Out Tampa, a volunteer effort.

GOOD SAMARITANS RESCUE BLIND MAN WHO TUMBLED ONTO WASHINGTON METRO TRACKS

Volunteer Ken Forward told Fox station WTVT that it's natural for firefighters to give back to the community.

"To assist the community, to serve the community, and that’s what we’re doing today," Forward said, adding that Velez noted "he’s not able to get around and maintain his home the way he’d like."

Forward continued, "He told me he painted his home 17 years ago by himself. But now with his impairment, he can’t do it, so we’re here to help him."

In addition to a fresh coat of paint, fire rescue volunteers installed smoke detectors in Velez's home.

"Mr. Velez and his wife came out and met with us, and just to see his appreciation and gratitude is rewarding," he told the news station.

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Paint Your Heart Out Tampa's website states that its mission "is to enrich lives and renew our community through annual volunteer efforts to paint and beautify our senior, veteran, or disabled neighbors' homes...one paint brush at a time."

The group has 75,000 volunteers who have painted 3,000 houses, according to the site.

Source: Fox News National

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Rugby internationals Holmes, Wade join NFL practice squads

Australia's Valentine Holmes during training
FILE PHOTO: Britain Rugby League - Australia Team Run - Ricoh Arena, Coventry - 4/11/16 Australia's Valentine Holmes during training Mandatory Credit: Action Images / Ed Sykes Livepic

April 9, 2019

(Reuters) – Rugby internationals from two codes, Australian Valentine Holmes and England’s Christian Wade, have been added to the practice squads of the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills as part of the NFL’s international player pathway program.

Australian rugby league international Holmes, a prolific try-scorer for the Cronulla Sharks, ripped up his contract with his club at the end of last season to pursue his dream of playing in the NFL.

The 23-year-old has been listed as a running back/wide receiver/kick returner and will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of compatriot Jarryd Hayne, who suited up in eight regular season games for the San Francisco 49ers in 2015.

The pacy 27-year-old Wade played one rugby union international on the wing for England in 2013 after building a reputation as one of the best finishers in the game. He is projected to play at running back, the Bills said.

Both players will be the 11th man on their teams’ practice squads, and 91st on the roster overall, and be retained at least through to the end of their pre-season training camps.

Four AFC teams will carry an extra player on their squads this year under the program, which aims to provide hopefuls from around the world to “compete at NFL level, improve their skills, and ultimately earn a spot on an NFL roster”.

The Miami Dolphins have taken on Brazilian defensive tackle Durval Neto, while German tight end Jakob Johnson, who played at the University of Tennessee, joins the New England Patriots.

(Reporting by Nick Mulvenney in Sydney, editing by Greg Stutchbury)

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Dem Mayor Buttigieg: Both Parties’ Ideology ‘Scrambled’

Democrat presidential primary contender Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Sunday called out both parties and President Donald Trump for having a “scrambled” ideology that’s turned Washington into a “mesmerizing horror show.”

In an interview on NBC News’ “Meet The Press," the South Bend, Ind., mayor touted his qualifications for the nation’s highest office as one about “quality as well as quantity in experience. I think you can also see pretty clearly that I’m about as different from this president as it gets.”

“There’s a lot more to this than an ideological analysis especially with the ideology in our country so scrambled,” he said. “Having a president who doesn’t even have an ideology, just a style undertaking a hostile takeover of the Republican Party, while the Democratic Party has only been able to explain its ideological commitments by comparing itself to the Republicans.”

Buttigieg said he want to “change the channel” in Washington.

“You have this moment, probably the only moment in American history, where it just might make sense for somebody my age, coming from experience in the industrial Midwest, non-federal, different background, bringing something that will actually help Americans envision the world as it'll be in 2054, the year that I will reach the current age of the current president, and just change the channel from this mesmerizing horror show that’s going on in Washington right now.”

Source: NewsMax Politics

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Pac-12 Player of Year Nowell to enter NBA draft

NCAA Basketball: NCAA Tournament-Second Round: University of Washington vs UNC
Mar 24, 2019; Columbus, OH, USA; Washington Huskies guard Jaylen Nowell (5) looks to move the ball in the second half against the North Carolina Tar Heels in the second round of the 2019 NCAA Tournament at Nationwide Arena. Mandatory Credit: Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports

April 1, 2019

Guard Jaylen Nowell, the reigning Pac-12 Player of the Year, is taking his game to the NBA, he announced Sunday on Twitter.

The Washington sophomore guard, named to the All-Pac-12 first team, said he will enter the 2019 NBA Draft, set for June 20.

Nowell averaged 16.2 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.1 assists, and he shot 50.2 percent from the field and 44.0 percent from the 3-point line.

“This season has been nothing less than amazing,” Nowell said in the statement, indicating that the decision came after input from his family, teammates and coaching staff.

“I want to thank everyone, especially the city of Seattle, for your support. I hope you all will continue to support me through my professional career. I will always be a Dawg for life,” Nowell said.

Projections have indicated that Nowell could be drafted as early as the middle of the first round.

Said Washington coach Mike Hopkins about Nowell, also in a statement, “When he chose to stay with us two years ago and come to the University of Washington, we have seen him grow every single day, both on and off the court.”

–Field Level Media

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FILE PHOTO - Otto Frederick Warmbier is taken to North Korea's top court in Pyongyang North Korea
FILE PHOTO – Otto Frederick Warmbier (C), a University of Virginia student who was detained in North Korea since early January, is taken to North Korea’s top court in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo released by Kyodo March 16, 2016. Mandatory credit REUTERS/Kyodo/File Photo

April 26, 2019

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said the United States did not pay any money to North Korea as it sought the release of comatose American student Otto Warmbier.

The Washington Post reported on Thursday that Trump had approved payment of a $2 million bill from North Korea to cover its care of the college student, who died shortly after he was returned to the United States after 17 months in a North Korean prison.

(Reporting by Makini Brice and Susan Heavey)

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Members of The Cranberries, bassist Mike Hogan, drummer Fergal Lawler and guitarist Noel Hogan speak to Reuters during an interview in London
Members of The Cranberries, bassist Mike Hogan, drummer Fergal Lawler and guitarist Noel Hogan speak to Reuters during an interview in London, Britain, April 24, 2019. REUTERS/Gerhard Mey

April 26, 2019

By Hanna Rantala

LONDON (Reuters) – Irish rockers The Cranberries are saying goodbye with their final album released on Friday, a poignant tribute to lead singer Dolores O’Riordan who died last year.

“In the End” is the eighth studio album from the band that rose to fame in the early 1990s with hits likes “Zombie” and “Linger”, and includes the final recordings by O’Riordan, who drowned in a London hotel bath in January 2018 due to alcohol intoxication.

Work on the album began during a 2017 tour and by that winter, O’Riordan and guitarist Neil Hogan had penned and demoed 11 tracks.

With O’Riordan’s vocals recorded, Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan and drummer Fergal Lawler completed the album in tribute to her.

“When we realized how strong the songs were, that was the deciding factor really… There was no point… trying to ruin the legacy of the band,” Noel Hogan said in an interview.

“It was obvious that Dolores wanted this album done because when you hear the album, you hear the songs and how strong they are, and she was very, very excited to get in and record this.”

The Cranberries formed in Limerick in 1989 with another singer. O’Riordan replaced him a year later and the group went on to become Ireland’s best-selling rock band after U2, selling more than 40 million records.

O’Riordan, known for her strong distinctive voice singing about relationships or political violence, was 46 when she died.

“She was actually in quite a good place mentally. She was feeling quite content and strong and looking forward to a new phase of her life,” Lawler said.

“A lot of the lyrics in this album are about things ending… people might read into it differently but it was a phase of her personal life that she was talking about.”

The group previously announced their intention to split after the release of “In The End”.

“We are absolutely gutted we can’t play (the songs) live because that’s something that’s been a massive part of this band from day one,” Noel Hogan said.

“A few people have said to us about maybe even doing a one off where you have different vocalists… as kind of guests of ours. A year ago that’s definitely something we weren’t going to entertain but I don’t know, I think it’s something we need to go away and take time off for the summer and have a think about.”

Critics have generally given positive reviews of the album; NME described it as “(seeing) the band’s career go full-circle” while the Irish Times called it “an unexpected late career high and a remarkable swan song for O’Riordan”.

Their early songs still play on the radio. This week, “Dreams” was performed at the funeral of journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot dead in Londonderry last week as she watched Irish nationalist youths attack police following a raid.

“We wrote them as kids, as a hobby and 30 years later they are on radio and on TV, like all the time… That’s far more than any of us ever thought we would have,” Noel Hogan said.

“That would make Dolores really happy because she was very precious about those songs. Her babies, she called them and to have that hopefully long after we’re gone… that’s all any band can wish for.”

(Reporting by Hanna Rantala; additoinal reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Susan Fenton)

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2020 Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren participates in the She the People Presidential Forum in Houston
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren participates in the She the People Presidential Forum in Houston, Texas, U.S. April 24, 2019. REUTERS/Loren Elliott

April 26, 2019

By Joshua Schneyer and M.B. Pell

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Senator Elizabeth Warren will introduce a bill Friday that offers new protections for U.S. military families facing unsafe housing, following a series of Reuters reports revealing squalid conditions in privately managed base homes.

The Reuters reports and later Congressional hearings detailed widespread hazards including lead paint exposure, vermin infestations, collapsing ceilings, mold and maintenance lapses in privatized base housing communities that serve some 700,000 U.S. military family members.

(View Warren’s military housing bill here. https://tmsnrt.rs/2Dy5aht)

(Read Reuters’ Ambushed at Home series on military housing here. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/usa-military)

The Massachusetts Democrat’s bill would mandate both regular and unannounced spot inspections of base homes by certified, independent inspectors, holding landlords accountable for quickly fixing hazards. The military’s privatization program for years allowed real estate firms to operate base housing with scant oversight, Reuters found, leaving some tenants in unsafe homes with little recourse against landlords.

The bill would also require the Department of Defense and its private housing operators to publish reports annually detailing housing conditions, tenant complaints, maintenance response times and the financial incentives companies receive at each base. The provisions aim to enhance transparency of housing deals whose finances and operations the military had allowed to remain largely confidential under a privatization program since the late 1990s.

The measure would also require private landlords to cover moving costs for at-risk families, and healthcare costs for people with medical conditions resulting from unsafe base housing, ensuring they receive continuing coverage even after they leave the homes or the military.

“This bill will eliminate the kind of corner-cutting and neglect the Defense Department should never have let these private housing partners get away with in the first place,” Warren said in a statement Friday.

The proposed legislation comes after February Senate hearings where Warren, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee who is seeking the Democratic nomination for the 2020 U.S. presidential election, slammed private real estate firms for endangering service families, and sought answers about why military branches weren’t providing more oversight.

Her legislation would direct the Defense Department to allow local housing code enforcers onto federal bases, following concerns they were sometimes denied access. Warren’s office said a companion bill in the House of Representatives would be introduced by Rep. Deb Haaland, Democrat of New Mexico.

In response to the housing crisis, military branches are developing a tenant bill of rights and hiring hundreds of new housing staff. The branches recently dispatched commanders to survey base housing worldwide for safety hazards, resulting in thousands of work orders and hundreds of tenants being moved. The Defense Department has pledged to renegotiate its 50-year contracts with private real estate firms.

Congress has been quick to take its own measures. Earlier legislation proposed by senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris of California, along with Mark Warner and Tim Kaine of Virginia, would compel base commanders to withhold rent payments and incentive fees from the private ventures if they allow home hazards to persist.

(Editing by Ronnie Greene)

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FILE PHOTO: Offices of Deloitte are seen in London
FILE PHOTO: Offices of Deloitte are seen in London, Britain, September 25, 2017. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo

April 26, 2019

By Noor Zainab Hussain and Tanishaa Nadkar

(Reuters) – Deloitte quit as Ferrexpo’s auditor on Friday, knocking its shares by more than 20 percent, days after saying it was unable to conclude whether the iron ore miner’s CEO controlled a charity being investigated over its use of company donations.

Blooming Land, which coordinates Ferrexpo’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, came under scrutiny after auditors found holes in the charity’s statements.

Ferrexpo on Tuesday said findings of an ongoing independent investigation launched in February indicated some Blooming Land funds could have been “misappropriated”. It did not provide any details or publish its findings.

Shares in Ferrexpo, the third largest exporter of pellets to the global steel industry, were 23.4 percent lower at 206.1 pence at 1022 GMT following news of Deloitte’s resignation.

“Ferrexpo’s shares are deeply discounted vs peers … following the resignation of Deloitte, we expect downside risks to dominate Ferrexpo’s shares near term.” JP Morgan analyst Dominic O’Kane said in a note on Friday.

Swiss-headquartered Ferrexpo did not provide a reason for the resignation of Deloitte, which declined to comment, while Blooming Land did not respond to a request for comment.

Funding for Blooming Land’s CSR activities is provided by one of Ferrexpo’s units in Ukraine and Khimreaktiv LLC, an entity ultimately controlled by Ferrexpo’s CEO and majority owner Kostyantin Zhevago, Ferrexpo said on Tuesday.

Ferrexpo’s board has found that Zhevago did not have significant influence or control over the charity, but Deloitte said it was unable reach a conclusion on this.

Reuters was not immediately able to contact Zhevago.

In a qualified opinion, a statement addressing an incomplete audit, Deloitte said it had been unable to conclude whether $33.5 million of CSR donations to Blooming Land between 2017 and 2018 was used for “legitimate business payments for charitable purposes”.

Deloitte said on Tuesday that total CSR payments made to Blooming Land by Ferrexpo since 2013 total about $110 million.

Ferrexpo, whose major mines are in Ukraine, has said that the investigation was ongoing and new evidence pointed to potential discrepancies.

Zhevago, 45, who ranked 1,511 on Forbes magazine’s list of billionaires for 2019 with a net worth of $1.4 billion, owns the FC Vorskla soccer club and has been a member of Ukraine’s parliament since 1998.

(Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain and Tanishaa Nadkar in Bengaluru and additional reporting by Pavel Polityuk in Kiev; editing by Gopakumar Warrier, Bernard Orr)

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Children walk past a damaged building in the aftermath of the Cyclone Kenneth in Pemba
Children walk past a damaged building in the aftermath of the Cyclone Kenneth in Pemba, Mozambique April 26, 2019 in this still image obtained from social media. SolidarMed via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS – THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

April 26, 2019

By Emma Rumney and Stephen Eisenhammer

JOHANNESBURG/LUANDA (Reuters) – Cyclone Kenneth killed at least one person and left a trail of destruction in northern Mozambique, destroying houses, ripping up trees and knocking out power, authorities said on Friday.

The cyclone brought storm surges and wind gusts of up to 280 km per hour (174 mph) when it made landfall on Thursday evening, after killing three people in the island nation of Comoros.

It was the most powerful storm on record to hit Mozambique’s northern coast and came just six weeks after Cyclone Idai battered the impoverished nation, causing devastating floods and killing more than 1,000 people across a swathe of southern Africa.

The World Food Programme warned that Kenneth could dump as much as 600 millimeters of rain on the region over the next 10 days – twice that brought by Cyclone Idai.

One woman in the port town of Pemba died after being hit by a falling tree, the Emergency Operations Committee for Cabo Delgado (COE) said in a statement, while another person was injured.

In rural areas outside Pemba, many homes are made of mud. In the main town on the island of Ibo, 90 percent of the houses were destroyed, officials said. Around 15,000 people were out in the open or in “overcrowded” shelters and there was a need for tents, food and water, they said.

There were also reports of a large number of homes and some infrastructure destroyed in Macomia district, a mainland district adjacent to Ibo.

A local group, the Friends of Pemba Association, had earlier reported that they could not reach people in Muidumbe, a district further inland.

Mark Lowcock, United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, warned the storm could require another major humanitarian operation in Mozambique.

“Cyclone Kenneth marks the first time two cyclones have made landfall in Mozambique during the same season, further stressing the government’s limited resources,” he said in a statement.

FLOOD WARNINGS

Shaquila Alberto, owner of the beach-front Messano Flower Lodge in Macomia, said there were many fallen trees there, and in rural areas people’s homes had been damaged. Some areas of nearby Pemba had no power.

“Even my workers, they said the roof and all the things fell down,” she said by phone.

Further south, in Pemba, Elton Ernesto, a receptionist at Raphael’s Hotel, said there were fallen trees but not too much damage. The hotel had power and water, he said, while phones rang in the background. “The rain has stopped,” he added.

However Michael Charles, an official for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), said heavy rains over the next few days were likely to bring a “second wave of destruction” in the form of flooding.

“The houses are not all solid, and the topography is very sandy,” Charles said.

In the days after Cyclone Idai, heavy inland rains prompted rivers to burst their banks, submerging entire villages, cutting areas off from aid and ruining crops. There were concerns the same could happen again in northern Mozambique.

Before Kenneth hit, the government and aid workers moved around 30,000 people to safer buildings such as schools, however authorities said that around 680,000 people were in the path of the storm.

(Reporting by Emma Rumney and Stephen Eisenhammer; Writing by Emma Rumney; Editing by Janet Lawrence and Alexandra Zavis)

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