Mozambique: Frelimo in Inhambane supports IDPs from Cabo Delgado – Watch

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Mozambique: Frelimo in Inhambane supports IDPs from Cabo Delgado – Watch

3:08 CAT | 15 Apr 2021

Screen grab: TVM

More than 40 people displaced from Cabo Delgado’s Muidumbe and Mueda districts are receiving food support and agricultural tools in Massinga district, Inhambane., TVM reports.

The support, which aims to alleviate the suffering of the victims of the terrorist attacks in the north of the country, is being distributed by Frelimo, the political party, adds the same source.

Massinga resident Januário Joaquim welcomed more than 20 displaced people “We live in the lurch,” Januário says. “What we get, we eat, a little. And when we get ten ‘contos’, we share. To manage. One gets a capulana, one gets a shirt, one gets trousers, and so on… .”

The displaced, mostly women and children, are natives of Muidumbe and Mueda districts, the journalist says.

A boy says: “Al-shabab was attacking, and we escaped to the bush. Then we left the bush and went all the way to Savassava.”

“When we left Muidumbe we walked all the way to Pemba,” another man relates.

A woman there, speaking to the reporter, says: ” No house to sleep in, no, We’re sleeping on the ground. (…) There is no… There is no what. We are sleeping on the ground, that’s all.”

A Frelimo representative said that the support “results from the contribution of members of society. We give a little food and a few agricultural inputs – machetes, hoes and other tools”.

TVM reports that “it is estimated that more than 100 people from war zones in Cabo Delgado chose Inhambane [province] as a safe place to live.”

Watch the TVM report below.