Khuroson: Shedding onions in her new house, Yodgoroy Makhmaliyeva has recalled the terrifying moment four years ago when a landslide buried her home in mountainous region of Tajikistan.
Heavy rain and snow, she said, sent a deluge of rocks, water and mud crashing into the home in the country estimated to be among the most vulnerable to effects of extreme weather events.
Makhmaliyeva expressed feared that rains and challenge of climate change would damage her home, and is now among thousands of people displaced by an increasing number of natural disasters.
Local officials said that about 10 million believe hundreds of thousands live in areas threatened by landslides, mudslides, floods, avalanches, and earthquakes. Makhmaliyev said that their old home had already survived various landslides before it was levelled in 2020.
One year later she and her husband were allotted their house in the village designated for citizens threatened by natural catastrophes.
