Mendosa, 37, cooked cassava paste on a small wood fire and her husband picked through the devastation wrought by Cyclone Kenneth on Nacate, a village of a few hundred people in Mozambique’s far north. Before the storm which ravaged Mozambique, southern Tanzania and Comoros from Tuesday, Nacate was a neat village on the road between Pemba and Macomia. It had a school, a towering cellular mast, a modest corner shop and a tea room. – ‘Maybe we’re going to die’ –While the concrete classrooms and reinforced steel tower survived, the tea room was destroyed. The workmen told AFP that nothing had been stolen and that the cash had been quickly removed following the branch’s destruction by Kenneth.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 28, 2019 13:52 UTC