The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today delivered agricultural production equipment to 1,200 families affected by armed violence in Pemba, capital of Cabo Delgado province, northern Mozambique.
“Technical cooperation with the Government is the fundamental basis to restore livelihoods and support families’ self-sufficiency towards zero hunger,” said Jaqueline Were, FAO’s emergency coordinator in Cabo Delgado, during a handover ceremony in Pemba.
The aid consists of vegetable seeds, hoes, watering cans and sickles and was handed over to the governor of Cabo Delgado, Valige Tauabo.
The support will benefit 1,200 families and is intended for the next farming season, which starts this month.
“In order to value this support that is mainly aimed at displaced, returned and needy families, we urge and encourage our producers to continue to intensify the ploughing and sowing for the second season of the 2022-2023 agrarian campaign,” said the governor of Cabo Delgado.
Cabo Delgado province has faced an armed insurgency for five years with some attacks claimed by the extremist group Islamic State.
The insurgency has led to a military response since July 2021 with support from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), liberating districts near gas projects, but new waves of attacks have emerged south of the region and in neighbouring Nampula province.
The conflict has left one million people displaced, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and about 4000 dead, according to the conflict registration project, ACLED.
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