An additional US$66 million is available to fund, starting next year, humanitarian assistance, rehabilitation and reconstruction of six districts affected by terrorist actions in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.
These are the districts of Palma, Macomia, Mocímboa da Praia, Mueda, Quissanga and Muidumbe. The information was disclosed this Friday, 18 November, by the deputy director of the regional office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for Africa, Noura Hamladji, during an audience granted by the Prime Minister, Adriano Maleiane.
According to the source, of the US$66 million available, US$50 million has been mobilised with UNDP partners to fund the projects over the next five years.
Hamladji said there was still a need to continue mobilising more funds to complete the whole rehabilitation, reconstruction and humanitarian assistance package, and noted that the available amounts would be added to last year’s funding of US$14 million.
Cabo Delgado province has been the scene of an armed insurgency since 2017 with some attacks claimed by the extremist group Islamic State.
The violence has led to a military response since a year ago with support from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
The conflict has made one million displaced people, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and around four thousand deaths, according to the ACLED conflict registration project.
