Japan today announced an emergency donation of 3.7 million dollars (three million euros) to UN agencies in response to the humanitarian crisis in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique.
“The donation aims to provide food assistance, livelihoods” and several services: sexual and reproductive health, response to gender-based violence and child protection, detailed the Japanese embassy in Maputo in a statement.
The support will be implemented through the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).
The donation “will also help alleviate the impact of covid-19,” he adds.
Armed violence in Mozambique’s northern province, home to Africa’s largest private multinational investment in natural gas exploration, is causing a humanitarian crisis with over 2,000 deaths and 560,000 people displaced, without housing or food, concentrated mainly in the provincial capital, Pemba.
Some of the incursions have come to be claimed by the ‘jihadist’ group Islamic State since 2019.
