Rainy season leaves 310 dead in Mozambique

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Rainy season leaves 310 dead in Mozambique

12:46 CAT | 09 Apr 2025

FILE - For illustration purposes only.[File photo: Lusa]

At least 310 people have died in Mozambique as a direct result of the current rainy season, the government announced yesterday. The passage of three cyclones has injured 1,255, and almost 1.9 million have been affected.

“In this rainy season, in cumulative terms, we must highlight that 1,838,235 people have been affected, with the deaths of 310 and the injuries of 1,255 people, among other significant material damages,” Council of Ministers spokesperson Inocêncio Impissa told reporters in Maputo at the end of the weekly cabinet meeting.

Mozambique is in the middle of the rainy season, which runs from October to April, a period in which, in addition to Cyclone Chido, which hit the country on December 14, Cyclones Dikeledi, on January 13, and Jude, on March 10, were also recorded, with these three cyclones between them causing around 170 deaths.

Cyclone Jude, the most recent to affect the country, entered Mozambique through the Mossuril district, causing at least 43 deaths, 41 of them in Nampula, and also affecting Tete, Manica and Zambézia in the centre of the country and Niassa and Cabo Delgado in the north.

The latest update from the National Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction (INGD) indicated that at least 384,877 people had been affected.

On March 27, the United Nations promised to discuss with the Mozambican government the inclusion of funding for geospatial technologies in the State Budget, they being important in helping reduce the impact of natural disasters.

“We can advocate for the member states of the United Nations to invest in these geospatial technologies (…), we must continue to raise this issue at the political level so that the [Mozambican] government commits to funding through the State Budget,” said the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Mozambique, Catherine Sozi.

Mozambique is considered one of the countries most severely affected by global climate change, facing cyclical floods and tropical cyclones during the rainy season as well as prolonged periods of severe drought.

Source: Lusa