‘We have to rebuild’: Mozambique flood victims persevere in face of loss

Maputo, Mozambique – When Emilia Machel, 30, and her three children rushed to the Chiaquelane site for displaced people on the afternoon of January 17, much of her hometown of Chokwe in Mozambique’s Gaza Province was already flooded.

The Limpopo River, which begins in neighbouring South Africa and flows into Mozambique, had reached dangerously high levels after heavy rain fell o...