The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is supporting the free issuing of identity cards (IDs) for those displaced by terrorist violence in Cabo Delgado, this UN agency announced Thursday (07).
The campaign to issue identity documents to displaced persons, carried out in coordination with the National Civil Identification Directorate, began at the end of last year and initially covers 80,000 people, said a UNICEF source.
The activity, which will give priority to children, is taking place in the rehousing centres and camps set up by the government to receive people fleeing the actions of terrorist groups in some districts of Cabo Delgado.
In December, UNICEF warned of the vulnerability of more than 250,000 displaced children to disease and malnutrition, noting that the risk of contracting disease is greater now with the rainy season in Mozambique.
In the same month, the United Nations also announced that it needed a total of US$254 million (18.9 billion and meticais) to provide humanitarian assistance to displaced populations.
The armed violence in Cabo Delgado, where Africa’s largest private multinational investment for natural gas exploitation is taking place, began three years ago and is causing a humanitarian crisis with over 2,000 deaths and 560,000 displaced people.
