The cyclones and floods that have devastated Mozambique have already caused 2,942 deaths and affected 11,050,533 people in the last five decades. According to data published last Saturday by the Mozambique Information Agency (AIM), citing the National Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction (INGD), the number of deaths and people affected by these bad weather events has been growing in recent years. years, as a consequence of the increase in cyclones. “Until the recent past, Mozambique reported an average of five cyclones during a decade, but the number has grown, with nine cyclones having been recorded in the last four years alone. Cyclone IDAI, for example, is on the list of those that killed the most in 2019, causing the deaths of 603 people, followed by Cyclone Freddy which killed 172 people between 2022/2023 and Cyclone Gombe which claimed 62 lives in 2021/2022”. The INGD also talks about the floods that occurred in the year 2000 in the provinces of Gaza, Maputo, Inhambane and Sofala, causing an increase in the flow of the rivers Limpopo, Incomáti, Umbeluzi, Save, Buzi, causing 699 deaths and the following year 113 deaths. In 2012, floods occurred that caused 167 deaths. According to the Director of the Emergency Operational Center (CENOE), Ana Cristina, who spoke during a reflection on the impacts of extreme weather events in municipalities, the history of cyclones in Mozambique shows a total of 1,503 deaths and 6,235,853 people affected. It should be noted that, in the rainy period between October 2023 and March 2024, 62 people lost their lives in the country, mostly due to collapsed walls and drowning. There were also 152 injuries and 181,708 affected, equivalent to 37,279 families. In the world, Mozambique is one of the countries most severely affected cyclically by floods and tropical cyclones during the rainy season. (M.A) Source: Carta de Moçambique
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