Mozambique: Over 80,000 Nampula province families need urgent aid in wake of cyclones

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Mozambique: Over 80,000 Nampula province families need urgent aid in wake of cyclones

8:22 CAT | 28 Jan 2025

FILE - Governor Eduardo Mariamo Abdula at the launch, this Saturday (25), of a solidarity campaign in support of the victims of cyclones Chido and Dikeledi, which recently hit Nampula Province. [File photo: Conselho Executivo Provincial de Nampula ]

More than 80,000 families need support in the province of Nampula, in northern Mozambique, following the passage of cyclones Chido and Dikeledi, an official source said on Monday.

‘Basic products sich as food, household utensils and construction material weighing more than 60 tonnes, have been sent to the districts of Mossuril and Ilha de Moçambique,’ according to a note from the Nampula provincial government.

Cyclones Chido and Dikeledi, hit Mozambique on 14 December and 13 January causing nearly 150 deaths.

The government also said that it estimates that more than 80,000 families in the province are “people in need” and that “a broad movement must be launched to quickly save them”.

Mozambique is in the middle of the rainy season, which runs from October to April, a period in which cyclones Chido and Dikeledi have already hit the north of the country.

On 13 January, the severe tropical cyclone Dikeledi hit Mozambique, causing at least 11 deaths and affecting another 250,000 people, according to the latest official report from the Mozambican authorities.

Cyclone Chido hit Mozambique on 14 December killing at least 120 people and affected 450,000 others.

Mozambique is considered one of the countries most severely affected by climate change in the world, facing cyclical floods and tropical cyclones during the rainy season.

Source: Lusa