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World Food Programme Warns of “Tens of Thousands of Displaced People” in Mozambique

World Food Programme Warns of “Tens of Thousands of Displaced People” in Mozambique

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned this Friday, 15 March, that tens of thousands of people have left their homes and need help in Mozambique, also recalling the 113,000 displaced people in Cabo Delgado.

In statements quoted by the Spanish news agency EFE, the WFP representative in Mozambique, Antonella d’Aprile, also pointed out that the severe tropical storm Filipo had affected 50,000 people, aggravating the crisis in the country.

The source added that, at the same time, Mozambique, like other countries in the region, suffered the worst droughts in 40 years in January and February, due to the influence of the El Niño climate phenomenon, which ruined many harvests.

“The climate impacts come at a time when WFP operations in the north were already hampered by conflict and insecurity,” she said, noting that 63 per cent of those displaced by the fighting in Cabo Delgado are children.

Storm Filipo, accompanied by winds of more than 120 kilometres per hour on 12 and 13 March, totally or partially destroyed more than 10,000 houses and also damaged roads, power lines and sanitation facilities, the WFP source said.

At the end of last year, the UN called on the international community to donate 413 million dollars for Mozambique’s humanitarian needs by 2024, but so far it has only received six per cent of these funds from donors.

According to an assessment made on Thursday (14) by the National Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction, the storm hit southern Mozambique – in addition to Maputo, also the provinces of Inhambane and Gaza – for 48 hours, forcing at least 14,000 people to leave their homes, causing damage to 29 schools, 19 health centres and 2,874 homes.

Mozambique is considered one of the countries most severely affected by climate change in the world, facing cyclical floods and tropical storms during the rainy season, which runs from October to April.

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