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8:11 CAT | 08 Apr 2016
The United Nations, (UN) says it has approved a relief packet amounting to US$5 million to support more than 1.5 million Mozambicans who are the victims of a severe drought which is sweeping across the southern African region, APA can report on Saturday. The aid was announced late Friday (April 2) in Maputo, by the new coordinator of the United Nations in Mozambique, Marcia de Castro, after meeting with Prime Minister, Carlos Agostinho do Rosario.
With this support, the United Nations will ensure food and nutrition security, and build water supplies for people and livestock.
The United Nations is operating in the country through agencies such as UNDP, WFP, FAO, UNIFECE among others.
Mozambique’s relief agency, the Technical Council for Disaster Management, (CTGC) has said more than 1.5 million people are affected by food insecurity due to drought that is severely affecting the country’s southern and central regions.
United Nations bodies, international aid agencies and governments have said severe droughts and floods triggered by one of the strongest El Nino weather events ever recorded have left nearly 100 million people in southern Africa, Asia and Latin America facing food and water shortages and vulnerable to diseases including Zika.
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