Africa-Press – Mozambique. About 2,500 Mozambicans have crossed the border to safety in Malawi after the destruction caused in late January by storm Ana, but now need food and shelter, the authorities announced on Monday.
The refugees are gathered outside in the district of Sanje, in southern Malawi, said Mozambique’s high commissioner in Malawi, Elias Zimba, quoted by Radio Mozambique today.
After losing their possessions and being forced to flee, the victims of tropical storm Ana are now living in the open, facing food shortages and without mosquito nets to prevent themselves from catching malaria.
“I have been for a week without receiving anything, I don’t even have a mat [to sleep on],” Fatima Afonso, one of the displaced people, told state radio.
At least 116 people died in Tropical Storm Ana’s passage through Madagascar, Mozambique and Malawi, 25 of them in the Portuguese-speaking country, according to figures from the UN organisation for humanitarian affairs.
In Mozambique the storm hit the provinces of Zambezia, Nampula and Tete, leaving 25 dead and 22 injured, as well as destroying 13,600 homes and leaving over 140,000 people homeless.
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