Approximately 3,000 residents residing on the island of Mozambique are being relocated to the mainland as part of the island’s restoration operations following a cyclone in March.

“There are households with more than 15 people sharing the same space, and most of these do not have spaces to build latrines and end up resorting to the beaches,” a local government spokesman Momade Amisse Ali told the Notícias newspaper.

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Many of these people were living in the neighborhood of Macuti, he said, describing their condition as vulnerable.

The Island of Mozambique, which served as a Portuguese trading post, is on the World Heritage List of the UN’s cultural organization, Unesco, because of its “remarkable architectural unity”.

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