The total number of people affected in the province and city of Maputo is 39,225, with the district of Boane, 30 kilometers south of the capital, being the most affected with a total of 13,000 affected in some way by the heavy rains between 07 and 13 February..

According to INGD data, quoted by Lusa, a total of 7,600 houses were flooded.

Around 15,000 people are being sheltered in 13 accommodation centers.

There was also damage to health centers and several schools, leaving thousands of students without classes.

In terms of livelihoods, the organization estimates that 4,000 hectares of agricultural production have been lost and 73 fishing boats have gone missing.

Mozambique is in the middle of the rainy season, which runs from October to April, and which is being especially severe, with an accumulation of 370 millimeters of rain in the Maputo region in the last week alone, almost three times the average expected for each month of February.

Heavy rain has affected parts of the eastern sub-region of southern Africa, with South Africa announcing 12 deaths yesterday and declaring a state of natural disaster in several provinces, including Mpumalanga, which borders Mozambique.

Many of these flows from neighboring countries end up on the Mozambican coast.