The shipwreck of the fishing boat in which About 130 people were fleeing a cholera outbreak from Lunga to Nampula (northern Mozambique) has so far been completed 94 dead, many of them children.
Mourning in Mozambique
As the Nampula Foreign Minister confirmed, these are the people They used the fishing boat as a makeshift ferrybut the boat did not have the capacity to carry so many people and capsized due to the impact of a wave.
It is important to note that many areas of Mozambique are only accessible by boat: The country has a very poor road network and some places are directly inaccessible by land or air.
This monday Rescue teams continue to search for possible survivors off the coast of Nampula, while rescue workers managed to pull five people out of the sea alive.
Cholera is spreading throughout Africa
According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Mozambique is currently experiencing “the largest cholera outbreak in the last 25 years”. The World Health Organization (WHO) warned last February of a severe increase in cholera cases in a dozen countries in eastern and southern Africa and that there was a significant risk that the disease would spread further and cause an epidemic.
The most affected countries are Zambia and Zimbabwewhile Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo are also recording active outbreaks of the disease.