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Mozambique: Authorities bring back 1,600 refugees from Malawi
3:45 CAT | 22 Jul 2022
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Mozambique’s authorities have begun repatriating about 1,600 people who have been refugees in Malawi since January due to natural disasters in the central Mozambican province of Zambezia, an official source said on Friday.
“We have all the conditions to start bringing back Mozambicans who are in eight accommodation centres in the district of Nsanje,” in Malawi, said César Tembe of the National Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction (INGD), speaking to journalists in Nsanje.
The families took refuge in Malawi following cyclone Ana, which hit Mozambique in January.
According to the official, four buses and four boats have been prepared to take the people back to Morrumbala district in Zambezia and two trucks to transport goods.
“Meanwhile, in Morrumbala, there is land for the resettlement of 1,617 families,” Tembe said.
According to INGD, return kits containing cooking utensils and food for at least 30 days have been prepared in a repatriation process expected to take less than a week.
Malawi shares an extensive border line with the Mozambican provinces of Tete, Zambezia in the centre and Niassa in the north.
Storm Ana killed at least 20 people in Mozambique, six of them in Tete, and displaced thousands of people in the country and Malawi.
In the 2021-2022 rainy season (October to April), at least 134 people died, and more than 760,000 were affected by natural disasters in Mozambique, according to INGD data.
Between October and April, Mozambique is cyclically hit by cyclonic winds from the Indian Ocean and by floods originating in the southern African basins, in addition to droughts that almost always affect some points in the south of the country.
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Source: Lusa
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