Mozambique: Powerful cyclone hits flood-ravaged region

A powerful tropical cyclone with winds of up to 230 km per hour (144 mph) surged ashore in southern Mozambique on Thursday, uprooting trees, knocking over electric pylons and raising fears of new floods. Cyclone Favio, the strongest to hit the southern African country, is heading towards the Zambezi River valley where it is likely to worsen floods which have already killed some 40 people.