Mozambique: Government approves €190m rainy season plan, €81m currently available

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Mozambique: Government approves €190m rainy season plan, €81m currently available

11:21 CAT | 15 Oct 2025

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Mozambique’s government approved on Tuesday the contingency plan for the 2025/2026 rainy season, which it acknowledged could affect 1.2 million people, but has less than half of the 14 billion meticais (€190 million) needed.

“Of the part that we have available, in terms of capacity to deal with this, we’re talking about around six billion meticais (€81.4 million), which is a part of what has been computed as necessary for this year, is available in means, in equipment and some money,” said Cabinet spokesman Inocêncio Impissa.

The rainy season in Mozambique began this month and lasts until April. Today, the cabinet approved a contingency plan that acknowledged three scenarios that could affect between one million and four million Mozambicans. However, the government is working on the most realistic scenario in the intermediate forecast, with consequences for around 1.2 million people.

“After analysing the seasonal climate forecasts and interpreting them for hydrology, agriculture and health, combined with vulnerability analysis and containment factors, the government adopts a contingency plan that responds to a scenario in which strong winds, urban flooding, drought, floods and cyclones occur,” he explained.

The plan, recognised Impissa, speaking to journalists at the end of the weekly meeting of that body, has “a deficit of eight billion meticais (€108.6 million), which is expected to be reduced through other sources of funding, such as parametric insurance, implementation of actions in anticipation of drought, floods and cyclones, and donations in kind or in cash”.

He insisted that “a large part of the response” to natural disasters “has been the behaviour” of the population, along with the country’s current “good capacity” for forecasting, “the result of investments in meteorology”.

“And the policy has changed. For us, it’s now about investing in recovery and not in disasters. In disasters, what we’re going to do is manage the risk. Still, we want to invest more in getting people back on their feet and restoring the conditions so that people can be more resistant and resilient to risk issues,” Impissa concluded.

O Governo aprovou, o plano de contingência para a presente época chuvosa, orçado em pouco mais 14 mil milhões de meticais.
Entretanto, deste valor, há um défice de 8 mil milhões de meticais.
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On 12 September, the Mozambican authorities warned of floods of “great magnitude” in the country and flooding on at least four million agricultural hectares during the next rainy season, which began in October in Mozambique.

Mozambique is considered one of the countries most severely affected by climate change, facing cyclical floods and tropical cyclones during the rainy season, which runs annually between October and April.

Between last December and March alone, during the last rainy season, Mozambique was hit by three cyclones, including Chido, the first and most serious, at the end of 2024, with almost 200 deaths recorded.

The number of cyclones that hit the country “has been increasing over the last decade”, as has the intensity of the winds, according to the State of the Climate in Mozambique 2024 report by the Mozambican Meteorological Institute, released in March.

Extreme meteorological phenomena caused at least 1,016 deaths in Mozambique between 2019 and 2023, affecting around 4.9 million people, according to data from the National Statistics Institute.

Source: Lusa