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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Three years after Cyclone Idai, Elisa Ernesto is again suffering anguish as she sees floodwaters consume her precarious house in Ndunda, on the outskirts of Beira in central Mozambique.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need help from the government,\u201d she tells Lusa, describing what she experienced on Friday and Saturday during the torrential rain caused by the depression that followed Cyclone Gombe.<\/p>\n

It rained as much in a day as it usually rains in a month, according to reports from both the population and local authorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were strong currents, and inside the house everything was full of water. There was no way to stay there. The [neighbourhood] secretaries passed by the houses asking us to go to the schools,\u201d but \u201cthey don\u2019t have the conditions there for us to survive,\u201d she recounts.<\/p>\n

Even so, the schools are the only safe haven and the place where Elisa takes her two 20-litre drums of water for the day\u2019s needs, albeit with a heavy face and hiding her hunger.<\/p>\n

The food she had kept at home was either washed away or became unfit for consumption.<\/p>\n

A similar fate befell Sara Paulo, who suffered sleepless nights perched on bricks with her children, waiting for the waters to subside.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere, in Ndunda II, we put everything in the hands of the government, because we are running out of ideas. We built a house, but the comes and destroys everything, and we go through hard times again,\u201d she relates.<\/p>\n

Sara Paulo has known all the recent cyclones. They all took something from her: Idai in 2019, Chalane in 2020 and Eloise in 2021.<\/p>\n

Fifty-year-old Anita Monteiro, a long-time resident of the neighbourhood, says her house looked like it had become an island. \u201cWe\u2019ve already asked for a bridge for the area, for security in times of flooding,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n

On Saturday and Sunday, authorities had to resort to small boats to rescue some residents, like Anita.<\/p>\n

Aristides Armando, delegate of the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGD) in the province, told Lusa that 22,000 families were affected by the floods in that part of Sofala.<\/p>\n

There are 1,349 houses completely destroyed, and another 3,096 flooded.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are managing the situation\u201d by means of three accommodation centres and \u201cthe waters are receding in almost every neighbourhood in the city,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

According to Armando, some parts of the province are still seeing high flows of the B\u00fazi and Metuchira rivers, the result of discharges from the Mavuzi and Chicamba dams.<\/p>\n

Between 11 and 19 March, northern and central regions of Mozambique saw heavy rain caused by Cyclone Gombe and the tropical depression that followed it.<\/p>\n

The bad weather caused at least 59 deaths and injured 82 persons (provisional figures), especially in the northern provinces of Zamb\u00e9zia and Nampula, in many cases following the collapse of mud-and-thatch houses.<\/p>\n

Mozambique faces severe storms every year during the cyclonic\/rainy season, which runs from October to April.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Mozambique<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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