The National Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (INGD) in Niassa warns that it will not provide any support to families who have returned to flood-risk areas in Cuamba and Mecanhelas, should they be affected by calamities this rainy season.

These are the families that after the allocation of land for housing in the highlands, returned to the banks of the Muanda and Namutimbwa rivers in Cuamba and Lake Chirua in Mecanhelas.

In Mecanhelas, two hundred seventy-six plots are available, but there is resistance from families to occupy them, and in Cuamba part of the families resettled in the Njato neighborhood have returned to flood-prone areas.

In the aftermath, the Delegate of the National Institute for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management in Niassa, Friday Taibo, stressed that there will be no support for these families if they are affected by the floods.

In Cuamba District it is expected that four thousand people will be affected by the floods and in Mecanhelas a survey is underway to determine the number of people on the verge of being affected.