Victims of the massive floods that left thousands in ruins begin to mourn the loss of those they love.
With many still missing, some of those affected feel the pain of not seeing those they care about one last time.
Sara Francisco survived the floods by climbing a rooftop with her two young daughters in her rural village of Buzi. Most of the other buildings in her village had been swept away by the flood.
She was stuck on the roof for a day with no food, simply surviving on rain water. Until help finally arrived when a villager passed by in a small canoe, which brought her and her daughters to a camp for displaced persons.
But thats the least of her heartache as she cannot find her other family members. She stated in an interview with Al Jazeera “I cant find my husband, my mother and six siblings. We were together before the floods but since i arrived to the camp, i cant locate them.”
Cyclone Idia is one of the worst storms on the record to affect Africa and the southern Hemisphere as a whole.
The cyclone caused catastrophic damage in Zimbabwe and Malawi, but Mozambique was hit the hardest.
