Mozambique: 500 plots allocated to IDPs in Corrane, Nampula

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Mozambique: 500 plots allocated to IDPs in Corrane, Nampula

2:48 CAT | 20 Oct 2020

Photo: O País

The administrative post of Corrane, Meconta district, in Nampula province, has been chosen for the permanent accommodation of people displaced from Cabo Delgado. The location was once a cotton production unit, and the plots reportedly measure 30 x 20 metres.

Five hundred plots have been parcelled out, and tents have been set up with the capacity to accommodate a family of five.

According to the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC,) more than 30,000 people displaced from Cabo Delgado by the insurgency are already in Nampula, spread across several districts, which suggests that 500 plots will not be enough.

According to ‘O País’, there are four temporary accommodation centres in Meconta alone, which are expected to be relieved gradually.

Community leader Agostinho Hassane told ‘O País’ – the first reporting team to have visited the area – that his community was working on a voluntary basis with provincial government structures and the INGC to create conditions for the “vientes”, as they call the IDPs there.

“The administrator came and informed us that our brothers from Cabo Delgado had fled here, and we said ‘welcome’, because during the 16-year War we were welcomed in Nampula, so we cannot but welcome them here in return,” he said.

“We will gradually feel the relief, plus, we are going to monitor the process. It won’t be all at once, but we will gradually feel relieved,” head of Namialo administrative post, Adelina Mocala, said on Saturday.

The INGC yesterday updated to about 30,000 people its figure for those arriving in Nampula having fled terrorism in the neighbouring province of Cabo Delgado.

Back in Corane, four water boreholes have been drilled and the construction of houses and toilets is underway.

Source: O País / Sala da Paz