Mozambique had been struggling with major floods, when on top of that in February this year tropical
cyclone Favio slammed into the country. It especially struck the coast town of Vilankulo, where I stayed for some time years ago. I'm back in Vilankulo to see the damage. Prepared for the worst, I was actually positively surprised. The Mozambicans have picked up their lives and are getting back to normal. An inhabitant described the damage after the cyclone 'as if we were back at war', but now most roofs have been repaired and uprooted trees have been removed. The extreme force of the wind is most visible still on the market place. The municipal market had recently moved to a new place with orderly rows of concrete stalls under an enormous roof financed by the Irish. But cyclone Favio blew the roof off and bent the construction to a ball of mangled steel. Since then the market has moved back to the wooden stalls in it's old location down town.
Mozambique had been struggling with major floods, when on top of that in February this year tropical cyclone Favio slammed into the country. It especially struck the coast town of Vilankulo, where I stayed for some time years ago. I'm back in Vilankulo to see the damage. Prepared for the worst, I was actually positively surprised. The Mozambicans have picked up their lives and are getting back to normal. An inhabitant described the damage after the cyclone 'as if we were back at war', but now most roofs have been repaired and uprooted trees have been removed. The extreme force of the wind is most visible still on the market place. The municipal market had recently moved to a new place with orderly rows of concrete stalls under an enormous roof financed by the Irish. But cyclone Favio blew the roof off and bent the construction to a ball of mangled steel. Since then the market has moved back to the wooden stalls in it's old location down town.
