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Barbara Plett Usher Jose Tembe
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The newly appointed US Special Envoy to Sudan has begun a diplomatic tour of East Africa and the Gulf. Four people have died and three others are wounded after being struck by lightning in Mozambique, which is now bracing for Storm Filipo.
Tom Perriello's trip comes weeks before the first anniversary of Sudan's civil war, and shortly after the UN Security Council's call for a ceasefire during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The lightning strikes happened in the northern town of Mogincual, in Nampula province.
His visit will take in Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya, Uganda, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - which has been widely accused of funding and arming the Sudanese paramilitary RSF. It denies the charges. Meanwhile, the southern and central provinces of Gaza, Inhambane, Sofala and Zambézia have been placed on alert for severe thunderstorms expected later on Monday.
Sudan is suffering from the biggest displacement crisis in the world, and aid agencies warn it risks becoming the world’s largest hunger crisis. Storm Filipo has now reached the Mozambican coast and could evolve into a severe tropical storm, before dispersing back out to sea.
The new US envoy said his trip was focused on the urgent need to end the war, and to get humanitarian access to all the Sudanese people. Increased rainfall has already been recorded and there are fears of mudslides. Boats and vessels are being warned by Mozambique's National Institute of Meteorology (Inam) to take precautions.
But even before he departed, reports said a top general in Sudan's army rejected a Ramadan ceasefire - unless the RSF leaves civilian and public sites. Natural disasters are common in Mozambique, particularly during the rainy and cyclone season which runs between October and April.
The Americans are also pushing to open more land routes for aid from Chad - the army had closed access points, saying the RSF was using it to transport weapons, and has only re-opened one.
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