Regional Overview
Madagascar
The UN Resident Coordinator has appealed to the international community for funds to support humanitarian responses to infrastructure damage caused by storms and floods; and to address food insecurity in the Great South, where an estimated 200,000 people are in need of immediate food assistance for three months, including 40,000 children at risk of nutritional deterioration. In Antananarivo, an estimated 4,000 people remain displaced at the government site earmarked for consolidation, with many still remaining in previously established sites across the capital.
Mozambique
A new cholera outbreak has been confirmed in Sofala Province, with 106 cases and 0 deaths reported since 01 March. This brings to five the number of provinces reporting cholera cases, the others being Nampula (1,318 cases and 08 deaths), Zambezia (380 cases and 3 deaths), Niassa (893 cases and 14 deaths), and Tete (3,197 cases and 22 deaths). The total number of cumulative cases in Mozambique since the first confirmed case this rainfall season in late December 2014 stands at 5,894 with 47 deaths.
Zimbabwe
A total of 14 cases of cholera have been confirmed since late February 2015.
Malawi
88 cholera cases with 2 deaths have been reported since the first confirmed case on 13 Feb 2015. All are related to the outbreak in Tete Province, Mozambique.
Angola
Benguela Province declared a day of mourning on 13 March over the deaths of 66 people killed by heavy rains that hit the region on 11 March.
