Mozambique: 170,000 households face hunger in Tete province

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Mozambique: 170,000 households face hunger in Tete province

2:53 CAT | 01 Mar 2024

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About 170,000 families face hunger in Tete province, with greatest concern focussed on the districts of Dôa and Mutarara, where the population eats an aquatic tuber locally known as “nhica”.

The scenario results from irregular rainfall caused by the impact of the “El Niño” weather phenomenon, which has already caused the loss of more than 195,000 hectares of various crops in the first season of the 2023/2024 agricultural campaign.

The Secretary of State in Tete, Elisa Zacarias, on Wednesday urged, during a meeting of the Emergency Operational Committee (COE), the creation of a multi-sectoral commission to travel to the districts and document the real situation, in order to find solutions.

“We are at a delicate moment, as we now have people eating wild fruits. We ask multi-sectoral teams to go to the districts in two days to collect data, and on Monday we will return for an extraordinary session, with detailed information on how to intervene,” she said.

The agricultural sector explained, at COE headquarters, that the situation is especially dramatic in the districts of Dôa and Mutarara, which were hit by Cyclone Freddy last year, and where the number of families facing a food crisis could rise in the coming days.

Source: Notícias