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Extreme events have killed 62 people in Mozambique until March
Extreme weather events in Mozambique have killed 62 people until March, also damaging more than 4,300 houses and 700 kilometres of roads, according to official data that Lusa had access to today.
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According to the document on budget execution from January to March, these phenomena, mainly heavy rainfall and strong winds, "caused the death of 62 people, mostly due to the collapse of walls and drowning".
"152 injuries were recorded and a total of 181,708 people were affected, corresponding to 37,279 families", the document states.
The Government's survey indicates that 4,203 houses were also affected, of which 921 were totally destroyed, 556 classrooms, affecting 102,001 students, 137 health units, 21 churches and 147 electricity poles.
These "extreme events" also affected the road sector over a distance of about 728 kilometres, including the destruction of nine bridges, five pontoons and 40 aqueducts, among others, while in the agriculture sector 118,268 hectares of various crops were affected, of which 56,240 hectares "were lost", while in the fisheries sector 451 artisanal fishing vessels were affected.
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, which runs from October to April.
The 2018/2019 rainy season was one of the most severe in Mozambique's memory: 714 people died, including 648 victims of cyclones Idai and Kenneth, two of the largest ever to hit the country.
In the first quarter of last year, heavy rains and the passage of cyclone Freddy caused 306 deaths, affected more than 1.3 million people in the country, destroyed 236,000 houses and 3,200 classrooms, according to official government data.
At the end of last September, the President of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, called for the preparation of the population and entities for the foreseeable effects of the 'El Niño' phenomenon in the country in the following months, with forecasts of above-normal rainfall and pockets of drought.
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