By ZimTracker Reporter

ON April 2, 2019, the Zimbabwe government promised to facilitate the identification, repatriation and reburials of Zimbabweans who were killed by Cyclone Idai and their bodies washed into Mozambique.

Keen to help, some Mozambicans circulated pictures of the deceased in order for them to be identified before giving the bodies pauper’s burials in Dombe district of Sussundenga.

It’s now three years later after the March 2019 climatic disaster and a ZimTracker Fact check reveals government misled the grieving Cyclone Idai survivors.

The bodies of over 150 Zimbabweans remain stuck in nondescript and make-shift graves in a foreign land, and their unfortunate relatives across the mountainous border are agonizing if ever they will get decent burials.

Some of the Chimanimani villagers told ZimTracker the unresolved issue was causing headaches, stresses and other mental problems in their community.

Many have given up hope of ever knowing the fate of their loved ones and they now feel government’s promise was a long shot from the start.