Maputo — A cyclone has formed in the northern Mozambique Channel, and its current course will take it towards the western coast of Madagascar.
As of Sunday afternoon, the storm, named Cyclone Belna, was battering parts of the Comoro archipelago with sustained winds of 110 knots (about 170 kilometres an hour), and gusts of up to 135 knots, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Centre of the US Navy.
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