Mozambique: Japan donates €4M for water treatment for displaced in Cabo Delgado

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Mozambique: Japan donates €4M for water treatment for displaced in Cabo Delgado

5:35 CAT | 20 Mar 2021

Photo: Embaixada do Japão em Moçambique/在モザンビーク日本国大使館

The Japanese government has donated equipment to purify water consumed by people displaced due to armed violence in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, announced the Japanese Embassy in Maputo.

The equipment, which includes five water treatment trucks, is estimated at $4.7 million (about €4 million), a source from the diplomatic office told Lusa on Friday.

The support will be channelled through the Ministry of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources, in coordination with the Investment and Property Fund for Water Supply (FIPAG).

“We deliver these trucks to help the internally displaced people there in Cabo Delgado, as well as upgrade our cooperation,” said Kimura Hajime, Japan’s ambassador, during a virtual ceremony at which the support was announced on Thursday.

Today @WFP was honoured to host the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Hajime KIMURA, for a visit to WFP operations in #CaboDelgado. The ambassador visited a distribution of value vouchers in Pemba for displaced people partially financed by Japan.

ありがとう

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— WFP Mozambique (@wfp_mozambique) March 11, 2021

Mozambique’s Defence and Security Forces have for the past three years faced armed groups classified as a terrorist threat in Cabo Delgado, home to Africa’s largest private multinational investment in natural gas exploration.

The armed conflict is causing a humanitarian crisis with more than 2,000 deaths and 670,000 people displaced without basic conditions.

Between June 2019 and November 2020, some of these groups’ incursions into districts further north in the province were claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State.

Source: Lusa