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The Mozambican president asked this Sunday, December 27, about the populations that leave the areas considered at risk by the tropical storm that approaches the Mozambique Channel. Filipe Nyusi left the alert that, in the most “pessimistic” scenario, about four million people were affected.
“All over the country they are prepared and alerted, but for things like this nobody is prepared because they are unpredictable situations in terms of damage. We will have to be careful and all in risk areas are better “Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi said during a meeting with officials from the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) in Maputo.
This is an alert issued by the National Institute of Meteorology (INAM) of Mozambique about the possibility that moderate tropical storm Chalane will enter the Mozambique channel on Monday, which could evolve to the point of a severe tropical storm and reach the coast from Mozambique on Wednesday. Monday, with emphasis on the provinces of Zambézia and Sofala, in the center of the country.
According to the head of state of Mozambique, the “pessimistic” scenario points to four million people affected, in addition to more than six thousand schools and 550 hospital units in risk areas.
“We are, again, facing a problem. [O sistema] it penetrated Madagascar and is currently evolving. It is raining a lot there and it is going to head towards the Mozambique Channel, therefore by our side ”, stressed the head of state.
Remembering the experience of Cyclone Idai, which hit the country in 2019, FIlipe Nyusi warned of assistance difficulties in the face of the humanitarian crisis caused by covid-19 and the violence in Cabo Delgado, where the attacks by armed rebels caused a humanitarian crisis with more than two thousand dead and 560 thousand displaced.
“We are in a phase of covid-19 where we must not be distracted, precautions must prevail. We will be in the flood phase, we have displaced people in some parts of the country,” said the Mozambican president, highlighting that it will be complex to guarantee assistance to the affected. open “all these fronts”.
“You have to be careful, it will rain all over the country from the moment you [o fenómeno] penetrate our territory ”, he warned.
Between October and April, Mozambique is hit cyclically by cyclonic winds from the Indian Ocean and by the floods originating in the river basins of southern Africa, in addition to the droughts that almost always affect some parts of the south of the country.
The 2018/2019 rainy season was one of the most severe on record in Mozambique: 714 people died, including 648 victims of two cyclones (Idai and Kenneth) that hit the center and north.
