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Cabo Delgado: UNHCR Regrets Lack of Funds and Difficult Access

Cabo Delgado: UNHCR Regrets Lack of Funds and Difficult Access

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) regrets the lack of funds and the difficulties of access to some locations in Cabo Delgado to help the population victimized by the armed insurgency in the region.

“I would very much like to go to several areas, but unfortunately access is still somewhat limited,” said this Monday (13.02), José Fischel de Andrade, head of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Pemba, adding that Macomia or Mocímboa da Praia, two of the main towns in the province, are areas where he would like to be “constantly”.

“Fortunately, in Palma, which was in that situation, access is now easier. Until recently we couldn’t stay overnight in Palma, but now we can” which allows us to “increase our projects”.

Palma is the town closest to the construction sites of the natural gas processing plants, whose works were suspended two years ago by TotalEnergies, after an armed attack.

Fischel de Andrade was speaking to journalists today during a meeting with the secretary of state of Cabo Delgado province.

He also warned about the underfunding of UNHCR operations.

“The funds are limited, particularly if we consider all the humanitarian emergencies that exist in the world,” such as Syria and now Ukraine, he said.

Access to funds “is fundamental”

He explained that these are crises that “draw the attention of several countries” which mobilise funds “that could come, for example, to some African countries such as Mozambique, and go to others” such as Ukraine, because “it is the most recent crisis”.

Access to funds “is fundamental” and this “is a first major challenge”, he stressed.

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The UNHCR joins the World Food Programme (WFP) which in January also complained about the shortage of funds to justify the suspension of humanitarian food aid to displaced people in northern Mozambique.

According to José Fischel de Andrade, over 250,000 people affected by the conflict in Cabo Delgado province have benefited from UNHCR programmes, issuing identification documents, training young people and women.

Cabo Delgado province has been facing an armed insurgency for five years with some attacks claimed by the extremist group Islamic State. The conflict has made one million displaced according to UNHCR and about 4,000 deaths according to the ACLED conflict registration project.

DW

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