‘Maybe we’re going to die because we won’t get any help. We are black and poor’
The aftermath of Cyclone Kenneth is seen in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, April 27 2019. Picture: OCHA/SAVIANO ABREU/REUTERSSoaking mattresses, bent corrugated iron sheets, some wooden chairs and two slender chickens are about all Assan Madal and his wife Maria Mendosa were able to salvage from the wreckage of their wood and mud home.
“We were inside the room, and the roof started to fly, and then the house fell apart because it was a mud house,” said Madal, 62. A crumpled yellow satellite dish lay in front of the Impala Salao da Cha tea house and inside the roofless structure, a muddy green plastic wine glass lay on its side. But shopkeeper Jamal Amisse had worked round the clock to repair the damage and prepare the store to reopen.
In Macomia, just 10km north of Nacate along a potholed road peppered with fallen trees, generators whirred as technicians battled to reconnect the town’s 90,000 people.
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