Soaking mattresses, bent corrugated iron sheets, some wooden chairs and two slender chickens are about all that Assan Madal and his wife Maria Mendosa were able salvage from the wreckage of their wood and mud home.
They laid out all their possessions neatly around a murky puddle, as their five children looked on quietly, and the chickens pecked for food in thick clumps of mud.
“Now we are sleeping under the palm trees. I don’t have a job, and I have five children… Everything is gone in my agricultural plot, there’s just a little bit of cassava left.”Clothes and sheets dried on a palm tree nearby.Before the storm which ravaged Mozambique, southern Tanzania and Comoros from Tuesday, Nacate was a neat village on the road between Pemba and Macomia.
“I’m not going to build anything else because I had two houses and this shop. Everything is destroyed. I don’t have the means to rebuild. I’ll just try to rebuild one home, and I cannot even do this.” “Here in the village, as you see, 300 houses have been destroyed. Everything,” said Amisse, 37, as four teenage boys played football in the road near the fallen village sign.
Builders worked by the headlights of their lorry to reconstruct the destroyed BCI bank where the entire facade had been ripped off exposing cash machines and office furniture.
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