UN to provide food aid for people affected by violence in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique

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UN to provide food aid for people affected by violence in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique

2:12 CAT | 31 Jul 2018

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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will send food aid to 10,000 people affected by armed attacks in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, an organisation source told Lusa on Monday.

According to a spokesperson contacted by Lusa through the WFP regional headquarters in Johannesburg, the food aid operation scheduled for August 6 is now awaiting the green light from local social action authorities in Cabo Delgado.

WFP says it has received requests for food assistance from local authorities in two of the worst-affected districts in northern Mozambique.

“The organisation carried out evaluation missions in Mocimboa da Praia and Palma, in coordination with the district and provincial authorities, and plans to start food assistance to the most affected populations, estimated at 2,000 families – about 10,000 people,” he said.

“A total of 240 tonnes of corn and 36 tonnes of beans and oil will be supplied, enough for at least 3 months’ food consumption,” he said.

The organisation said that the operation would be managed by the WFP provincial office in Pemba with six dedicated staff members, and implemented by local partner AMA, a non-governmental organisation.

The UN spokesman said that food aid would be transported from Nacala in Nampula province to WFP warehouses in Mocimboa da Praia and Palma, near the northern border of Mozambique with Tanzania, in a fleet of ten 30-ton trucks hired locally by the WFP.

The AMA would then transport the aid from the district warehouses to the distribution sites in both districts, he added.

According to Lusa’s source, WFP and the United Nations National Team in Mozambique “remain concerned about the ongoing violence in northern Mozambique that has cost lives, destroyed houses and brought livelihood to a standstill in five Cabo Delgado districts”.

He added that the WFP had “informed the government of its readiness to provide multi-sectoral support in response to the situation”.

Source: Lusa