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Flooded homes and schools, blocked access roads and huge craters in the streets characterise the trail of destruction left by the heavy rains that fell in the early hours of Monday morning in Maputo.
In the Mafalala neighbourhood, we find Clinton Machava trying to address the damage in her yard. Basin by basin, he is baling out the water that flooded his whole house.
In fact, it was not just Machava’s house that was flooded in the neighborhood,. Most of Mafalala’s homes were flooded.
Although it was Monday, there were no pupils at the Complete Elementary School Unidade 22 because the classrooms were all flooded, a situation affecting more than 1,500 students.
And in Laulane, the situation was the same, access roads still blocked in the early afternoon and residents trying to fill the craters that were preventing people and vehicles making their way into and through the neighbourhood.
In the centre of the city a crater had opened up on Samora Machel Avenue, right next to the statue bearing the same name.
And while the damage is still being felt, the National Meteorological Institute is warning that the rain may continue, particularly in the interior of Maputo province.
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