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Mozambique: Unicef supports mission to provide free ID cards to displaced
5:06 CAT | 07 Jan 2021
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is supporting free identity cards to displaced persons fleeing armed violence in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, the UN agency announced on Thursday.
The campaign to issue identity documents for displaced people, carried out in coordination with the National Civil Identification Directorate, began at the end of last year and will initially cover 80,000 people, the UN source told Lusa.
The activity, which will give priority to children, is taking place in the resettlement centres and camps provided by the state to receive people fleeing armed violence in Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique.
In December, Unicef warned of the vulnerability of over 250,000 displaced children to disease and malnutrition, noting that the risk of contracting a disease is greater now with the rainy season in Mozambique.
The United Nations also announced that it needed a total of US$254 million (€207 million) to provide humanitarian assistance to people displaced by armed violence in Cabo Delgado.
The armed violence in Cabo Delgado, where Africa’s largest private multinational investment for natural gas exploitation is taking place, started three years ago and is causing a humanitarian crisis with more than 2,000 deaths and 560,000 displaced people, without housing or food, mainly concentrated in the provincial capital, Pemba.
Some of the incursions have been claimed by the ‘jihadist’ Islamic state group since 2019.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) will meet this month to discuss the security situation in the region.
Source: Lusa
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