First the floods, then the pestilence

摘要

JULIETA MUSSACA and her two children survived on coconuts knocked from trees by the storm and a bag of rice left soggy from the floods. After Tropical Cyclone Idai hurtled into Mozambique's coast on March 14th, and a deluge of floodwaters followed, little was left of her village in Buzi district. "Even the trees are gone," said Ms Mussaca, who is 29. "We lost everything." After nearly two weeks of growing desperation, cut off from the outside world, she travelled by boat to the nearby city of Beira. "No one came to help us," she said. "No one."