Cited in Thursday's issue of the daily paper 'Noticias', INGC director Paulo Zucula said that his institution has rescued to safety 2,607 people in the central Manica, Sofala and Zambezia, and in the western Tete provinces.
In this operation, INGC used community canoes, and 12 boats made available by the government.
These are record figures in official rescue operations in the Zambezi valley.
Zucula said that most of the people at risk have already been rescued along the Zambezi valley, but people think of danger differently. While the authorities think people should move preventively, some residents are awaiting the oncoming of the floods to move to safety.
He said that there are two different situations, with people upstream, in the regions of Zumbo, in Tete and Dode, seeing a reduction of the river levels, while people in Caia, Marromeu, and Luabo are experiecing floods.
Zucula explained that this is due to the reduction of the floodgates discharges in the Cahora Bassa dam, combined with the decreased rainfall in the neighbouring Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi, and the continuing rainfall in the central region of Mozambique.
SOURCE: AIM
