Mozambique: Over 113,000 Cabo Delgado families displaced by rebels need support - Watch
Mozambique: President Nyusi, WFP Chief discuss displaced people in Cabo Delgado
3:59 CAT | 10 Jul 2020
FILE PHOTO: For illustration purposes only. [File photo: CDD Moçambique]
The Mozambican head of state, Filipe Nyusi, and the executive director of the World Food Program (WFP), David Beasley, yesterday discussed the situation of Mozambicans displaced by the armed violence in Cabo Delgado.
Nyusi and Beasley discussed the situation over the telephone, according to a note from the Mozambican presidency distributed on Thursday.
“The President of the Republic shared impressions about the security situation in the province of Cabo Delgado and discussed with the WFP executive director the need for humanitarian assistance to the displaced,” the note said, without advancing further details.
Great phone call with my friend Filipe Nyusi, President of Mozambique. We discussed ramping up @WFP‘s partnership with the government, including providing food assistance to families displaced by violence in Cabo Delgado province.
More on our talk: https://t.co/MJ3pn56ae1 pic.twitter.com/0yKfGopjak
— David Beasley (@WFPChief) July 10, 2020
Cabo Delgado, the province where Africa’s largest private investment – for the extraction of natural gas – is going ahead, has since October 2017 been the scene of attacks by insurgents classified since the beginning of the year by Mozambican and international authorities as a terrorist threat.
Incursions by armed groups in the last two and a half years have killed at least 700 people.
The provincial capital (Pemba), located further north in the province, has been the main refuge for people from the affected districts, but some prefer to flee elsewhere, including Nampula in the neighbouring province.
The number of internally displaced persons resulting from the violence has doubled since March and now amounts to 250,000 people, according to the latest information from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
In addition to addressing armed violence in Cabo Delgado, Filipe Nyusi took the opportunity to thank David Beasley for the support provided by WFP in assisting those affected by cyclones Idai and Kenneth, which hit central and northern Mozambique in 2019, causing more than 600 deaths and affecting about 1.5 million people.
Our @WFPChief and President of #Mozambique @FNyusi had a great dialogue on #humanitarian issues, yesterday. The leaders agreed on continuing push for #SavingLives in Cabo Delgado and #changinglives in the rest of the country.
That is our #FridayFeeling https://t.co/bJZeJZdiiE— WFP Mozambique (@wfp_mozambique) July 10, 2020
A massive humanitarian calamity is unfolding in Cabo Delgado with no immediate end in sight in terms of hard security challenges & the longer term prospects of a human security development & conflict resolution strategy being developed, let alone implemented, seemingly remote. https://t.co/TYdDLaXsHB
— Piers Pigou (@PiersPigou) July 9, 2020
#today, @WFP #Mozambique delivered:
➡️37,35 tons of #LifeSaving
➡️Oil, dried beans and peas, for
➡️575 families in Natiti and Alto Gingone neighborhoods
➡️of over 5500 families in Pemba only and
➡️113,000 #IDPs in Cabo Delgado.
Thanks to @USAIDSavesLives, @eu_echo & @DFID_Moz pic.twitter.com/1ROgVXC4Fy— WFP Mozambique (@wfp_mozambique) July 2, 2020
Source: Lusa
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