Japan’s embassy in Mozambique has announced the handing over of €1.5 million to the World Food Programme (WFP) to counter food insecurity in communities displaced by armed attacks in Cabo Delgado, in the north of the country.
The donation is to be used to buy canned fish over the next 12 months for more than 25,000 people displaced by the violence in the region, the WFP clarified in a statement.
“The government of Japan is extremely concerned about the humanitarian situation in northern Mozambique,” said Hajime Kimura, Japan’s ambassador in Maputo.
The WFP has issued a warning with regard to the situation in the region.
“Needs are increasing, with more than 800,000 people displaced and thousands affected in host communities in northern Mozambique,” said the WFP’s deputy director, Pierre Lucas, expressing the hope that other donors would “follow the Japanese example”.
Armed attacks by insurgents since 2017 in districts of northern Cabo Delgado have resulted in more than 3,100 deaths, according to the ACLED conflict registration project, and displaced more than 817,000 people, according to Mozambique’s own authorities.
