Then and now: a painful reminder of Cyclone Idai in a small Mozambican village

A Sunday Times photographer revisits the sights and people of Begaja, an unmapped village that was washed away in the floods that came with Cyclone Idai in March 2019A woman carries a bucket through a flooded pathway in the weeks that followed Cyclone Idai, in March 2019.In late March 2019, the physical damage in the wake of Cylone Idai had been done.

Begaja resettled on the edge of the floodplain about 3km from the Buzi. To reach it villagers need to cross a piece of land that once was used by subsistence farmers to grow maize but was levelled in the flood. About halfway down the path stands a lone tree marked with debris indicating the high level of floodwater, in an area where land meets the horizon.

Fatima Bernado climbed a tree with her family as flood waters surrounded her village. She watched helplessly as six of her family fell into the water below, including her son and daughter, aged one and four.

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