The 250 members of the Assembly of the Republic announced a donation of 2.7 million meticais to support the populations affected by the floods caused by the rains that continue to batter various regions of the country.
According to a publication by the Mozambique Information Agency, the amount corresponds to two days’ salary for each deputy and will be channeled to the National Institute for Risk and Disaster Management (INGD), adding that the initiative was announced during the 11th extraordinary session of the Standing Committee (CP), meeting in Maputo.
“Members of Parliament have been following with concern the impact of these rains on our populations and on public and private infrastructure, and they stand in solidarity with the victims of these floods,” said session spokesman Sérgio Pantie.
He said that visits are being made to the affected areas to show solidarity with families and mobilize multifaceted support for their assistance, especially in the provinces of Maputo, Gaza, and Inhambane in southern Mozambique.
Meanwhile, in view of this situation, Pantie appealed to the populations living in the affected areas to respect the recommendations of the competent authorities and remain in safe places.
The National Directorate for Water Resources Management has warned of emergency discharges from Friday, January 16, at the Pequenos Libombos dam, which will increase eightfold and threaten to cut off the main road linking Maputo and the district of Boane in the southern part of the country.
In a statement, the agency said that the increase in discharges from the current 300 cubic meters per second to 2,500 is a result of weather forecasts and the prevailing hydrological situation.
Recently, the National Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction (INGD) reported that 85 people died, 70 were injured, and another 105,100 were affected by climate change during the 2025-26 rainy season.
In October, the Executive approved the national contingency plan for the 2025-26 rainy season, valued at 14 billion meticais. However, it admitted that it only had 6 billion meticais of the necessary funds available.
Mozambique is in the middle of the rainy season, a period that has been marked by warnings of heavy rains and strong winds, mainly in the central and southern parts of the country, with the authorities taking action to anticipate floods and inundations in those regions.
The country is considered one of the most severely affected by climate change, facing cyclical floods and tropical cyclones. In the last rains, between 2024-25, Mozambique was hit by cyclones Chido, Dikeledi, and Jude, which killed at least 313 people, injured 1,255, and affected more than 1.8 million.
Extreme events caused at least 1,016 deaths in Mozambique between 2019 and 2023, affecting around 4.9 million people, according to data from the National Statistics Institute.
