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CORRECTION: Attacks in Cabo Delgado: Japan will donate more than US$93 thousand to support victims
3:01 CAT | 17 Aug 2020
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- Corrects the amount of the donation.
Japan has offered just over US$93 thousand (€78.6 thousand) to finance social projects for victims of armed violence in Cabo Delgado province, the Japanese embassy in Maputo announced on Friday.
The resources will finance activities aimed at generating income for families affected by the armed conflict, facilitating community dialogue and strengthening the link between the police and the community, a note from the embassy explains.
The actions to be covered by the Japanese financing will benefit 37,000 people.
“We are concerned about increased insecurity in Cabo Delgado, which is affecting a large number of people,” Japan’s ambassador to Maputo, Kimura Ajime, is quoted in the statement as saying.
The funding will also support coordination forums ensuring an integrated response with an impact on social cohesion and community resilience, and will be channelled through the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the note explains.
“This partnership comes at a critical moment for the population of Cabo Delgado, as thousands of families have been forced by insecurity to leave their homes,” IOM Chief of Mission in Mozambique Laura Tomm-Bonde commented.
Tomm-Bonde pointed out that many families had seen their economic prospects deteriorate, after having received in their homes people fleeing the armed conflict in Cabo Delgado.
In Cabo Delgado, the region where the largest-ever privately financed natural gas project in Africa is underway, attacks by armed groups which started in Mocímboa da Praia in 2017 have cost at least 1,059 lives. Some of the attacks have been claimed by the Islamic State ‘jihadist’ group.
According to the United Nations, armed violence in this northern Mozambique province has forced 250,000 people to flee districts affected by insecurity in the north of the province.
Source: Lusa
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