Mozambique’s National Institute for Disaster Risk Management says it is working towards the repatriation, still without a date, of more than 13,000 Mozambican refugees in Malawi due to the post-election violence.
The president of the National Institute for Disaster Risk Management -INGD- visited the centre for displaced people in Nsange, Malawi, where the refugee families are located. Luísa Meque said that the authorities are working to repatriate the more than 13,000 Mozambican refugees in Malawi due to the post-election violence, emphasising that so far they have only managed to register 7,000 people.
“We’re counting on 13,000 people, but so far we’ve only managed to register 7,030 people. In the centre of Nsange there are around 4,000 people,’ she noted.
However, the president of the National Institute for Disaster Risk Management did not give any dates for the repatriation process of the families who were forced to leave Mozambique for Malawi due to the post-election crisis.
‘We can’t give any dates yet, we’re working on it, but the aim is to do it as quickly as possible,’ he said.
he National Institute for Disaster Risk Management (INGD) delivered food and other products to Mozambican families in six refugee centres in Malawi. Most of the refugees come from the provinces of Tete and Zambézia in the centre of the country.
The contestation of the election results has led to at least 315 deaths and around 750 gunshot wounds, according to civil society organisations.
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