At least 103 dead and 231,000 affected by heavy rains since October in Mozambique

At least 103 people have died and 231,000 have been affected by floods caused by heavy rains in Mozambique since last October, the National Disaster Management Institute (INGD) reported this Friday. This southeastern African country is at the peak of the rainy season, which began in October 2025 and is expected to end in March 2026. In statements to journalists in the capital, Maputo, the president of INGD, Luísa Meque, revealed that “there are 103 people who have died since the beginning of the rainy season” and “231,000 people in a state of emergency in the south and center of Mozambique.”

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Meque also provided a balance of “at least 51,000 affected homes, 15 flooded health centers, seven damaged bridges and 152 kilometers of destroyed roads”. The Minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources, Fernando Rafael, indicated that large-scale floods are affecting human settlements, infrastructure, some access roads and agricultural areas in several districts in the southern province of Gaza. These floods add to those recorded since the beginning of the week in the district of Búzi, in the central province of Sofala. The increase in rainfall during the last week has caused the Limpopo River to overflow in the south and the Buzi River in the center.