Tens of thousands of people in the far north of Mozambique are bracing for violent flooding as torrential rain pushes up water levels, after the death and devastation wrought by Cyclone Kenneth.
Fields on the outskirts of the city that had been lush green just a day earlier were now brown with floodwater.
“We expect the rainfall to be twice as much as that which accompanied Cyclone Idai that hit the city of Beira last month.” In the small village of Mieze, around 20 kilometres to the south west, dozens of people gathered hoping to be rescued by boat. According to a preliminary toll published Sunday by the National Institute of Disaster Management , five people have died, more than 23 000 people are without shelter and nearly 35 000 homes have been either partly or completely destroyed.To the north of the provincial capital, the town of Macomia was counting the cost of the damage on Sunday, with homes and businesses destroyed, roofs torn off, trees and electric pylons uprooted.
“As you can see we are now trying to rebuild our lives after this storm and return to normality… It’s very hard.”
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