The bad weather that has hit the northern province of Nampula since October has destroyed more than a thousand houses and affected nearly six thousand people, the National Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (INGD) said yesterday.

"We're talking about around 1,192 houses, most of them precariously built, which were destroyed, and a total of 5,792 people affected," Alberto Armando, the INGD delegate in Nampula, told the media yesterday.

The authorities in Nampula are focusing on the districts of Memba, Mecuburi, Angoche, Malema, Moma, Monapo and Rapale, which have been identified as being at risk from bad weather in the northern province.

"For example, in the education sector, we're talking about nearly 43 classrooms affected. In the health sector, we're talking about at least three health units affected in the regions," added Alberto Armando, quoted by Lusa, noting that the authorities have no record of deaths due to the bad weather.

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.

In November of this year, the National Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (INGD) announced that it needed 7.4 billion meticais for the 2022/2023 rainy season, when at least 2.2 million people are expected to be affected.

The 2018/2019 rainy season was one of the most severe on record in Mozambique: 714 people died, including 648 victims of Idai and Kenneth, two of the biggest cyclones ever to hit the country.