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.
The first floods have already been seen in some parts of Pemba, the capital of Cabo Delgado province, as well as in surrounding areas, lashed by heavy rain since daybreak, AFP journalists reported.
“We are very worried because, according to the forecasts, heavy rain is expected for the next four days,” she added. This time, around 1,000 kilometres further north, the city of Pemba and its 400,000 inhabitants face similar dangers.“Houses started to collapse in Natite neighbourhood, according to the rescue team operating there,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a tweet on Sunday.According to figures provided by the Mozambique authorities to NGOs, around 200,000 people in Pemba are in danger.
“The government said we have to go to the top of the hill if the water continues to rise -— and we’ll go. We are scared because we don’t know.” “We had information of the storm from the weather service but we didn’t realise the scale of the cyclone until it hit,” Macomia’s mayor, Fernando Neves, told AFP.
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