Maputo, April 21, 2026 (Lusa) – More than 220,000 customers are without electricity in the provinces of Gaza and Inhambane, southern Mozambique, after severe weather interrupted the power supply, the Mozambican electricity company announced on Tuesday.

"Due to the bad weather felt in the southern region of the country, there is an interruption in the supply of electrical energy in some regions of Gaza and Inhambane provinces," according to an alert issued on Tuesday by Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM).

The state-owned EDM confirmed that teams are on the ground to restore the system in the affected areas "as soon as possible," subject to weather and safety conditions.

EDM has recorded losses of €2 million during the current rainy season and requires €8.1 million to restore the situation, the company's president told Lusa in March.

The death toll for the current rainy season in Mozambique, which began in October, has risen to 311, according to the National Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction (INGD).

The INGD database, updated on Tuesday, shows that the current rainy season, which continues until the end of April, has affected 1,071,791 people, corresponding to 247,470 families. Mozambique remains one of the countries most severely affected by climate change globally, cyclically facing floods and tropical cyclones between October and April.

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