Japan provides US$2 million to provide food aid to displaced people in Cabo Delgado

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Japan provides US$2 million to provide food aid to displaced people in Cabo Delgado

2:29 CAT | 08 Aug 2024

Photo: WFP Mozambique / X

The Japanese government has disbursed US$2 million (€1.8 million) to the World Food Programme (WFP) to provide food aid for 48,000 internally displaced people in the province of Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique.

“This timely contribution will support the country’s most vulnerable populations by distributing rice and canned food from Japan to around 48,000 internally displaced people in the province of Cabo Delgado over a period of six months,” reads a statement from the WFP, adding that the memorandum of understanding for this support was to be signed in Maputo this Thursday (08-08).

🌍Thanks to the @JapanGov‘s generous contribution, @WFP under the Govt🇲🇿#INGD leadership will deliver food assistance to 48,000 people affected by the insecurity in Northern Mozambique promoting #FoodSecurity & well-being.
🇯🇵🇺🇳🤝🇲🇿 pic.twitter.com/QV50UuqrBn

— WFP Mozambique (@wfp_mozambique) August 8, 2024

Cabo Delgado province has been facing terrorist attacks by groups associated with the Islamic State for over six years, which have displaced more than 1.2 million people, according to official figures, but also the effects of climate change, such as floods.

The Norwegian government also disbursed €3.3 million to the WFP in July, in this case to strengthen food systems adapted to climate change and expand school feeding programmes in southern Mozambique, a project to be implemented in six districts in the provinces of Gaza and Inhambane.

At the end of September, President Nyusi called on the population and entities to prepare for the foreseeable effects of the El Niño phenomenon in the country in the following months, with forecasts of above-normal rainfall and drought outbreaks throughout the country.

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

Source: Lusa