Cyclone Freddy swipes across Mozambique

Tropical Cyclone Freddy dropped “dangerous and exceptional rainfall levels” over Mozambique on Friday as the long-lasting weather system continued to wreak across southern Africa, according to the United Nations weather agency.

The cyclone is projected to weaken as it barrels through southern Africa but still poses serious risk of heavy rainfall to the neighbouring nations of Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi and Botswana, according to the regional weather centre in Reunion.

Freddy had waned slightly when it plowed through Madagascar on Tuesday night, killing at least four people and displacing more than 16,000, before regaining strength over the ocean on Wednesday night and on Thursday.