{"id":498,"date":"2022-02-08T14:38:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T11:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/?p=498"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:41:39","slug":"ostrovmadagaskar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/2022\/02\/08\/ostrovmadagaskar\/","title":{"rendered":"The island of Madagascar and the southeast coast of Africa were hit by devastating cyclones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On February 6, 2022, a second cyclone, Batisirai, hit Madagascar, killing at least 10 people in southeastern Madagascar, causing floods, collapsing buildings, and knocking out power.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The cyclone brought heavy rains and winds of up to 45 m\/s to the east coast. One of the worst-hit towns was Nosy Varika on the island&#8217;s east coast, where nearly 95% of buildings were destroyed and flooding cut off access to most areas of the town, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the UN World Food Program (WFP), a total of up to 150 thousand residents of Madagascar were forced to leave their destroyed homes.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks earlier, the island of Madagascar and the southeast coast of Africa were in the grip of Tropical Storm Ana. According to preliminary data, as a result of the natural disaster, 46 people died, 49 received various injuries, and 65 thousand people were left homeless. In total, at least half a million people suffered from the consequences of Ana.<\/p>\n<p>WFP emphasizes that the recent string of tropical cyclones is caused by global warming and is leading to crop failure, rising food prices and resulting instability in the region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-499\" src=\"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/madagaskar0802a.jpg\" alt=\"\u041c\u0430\u0434\u0430\u0433\u0430\u0441\u043a\u0430\u0440\" width=\"234\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 6, 2022, a second cyclone, Batisirai, hit Madagascar, killing at least 10 people in southeastern Madagascar, causing floods, collapsing buildings, and knocking out power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[448,450,449],"class_list":{"0":"post-498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-128","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-cyclones","10":"tag-madagascar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}