Watch: Resettlement of IDPs – moving from Pemba to Marocane, Ancuabe

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Watch: Resettlement of IDPs – moving from Pemba to Marocane, Ancuabe

3:03 CAT | 08 Dec 2020

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Authorities in Cabo Delgado are moving people displaced by the armed attacks in the province from the homes of relatives in Pemba to resettlement villages. The operation aims to decongest the homes of families who welcomed relatives from areas devastated by terrorism, Miramar reports.

This is the village of Marocane, in Nanjua, Ancuabe district of Cabo Delgado, the new home of displaced families who were staying with relatives in Pemba. Some arrived here in late November, while others arrive daily on buses provided by the government.

Upon arrival, they receive shelter kits and are given housing plots. They also receive food, kitchen utensils and land for farming.

It is the resumption of a life far from their places of origin, because of terrorism.

People who came to Marocane some time ago have already built shelters from locally available material. One such is Mrs. Fátima Atibo, who we found putting the finishing touches to her hut. She wants to finish the house and then pick up the remaining 11 members of her family who are still in Pemba, where they headed when they left the district of Mocímboa da Praia.

The government, with the help of its partners, has created minimum living conditions, installing infrastructure such as water supplies and mobile health tents to serve the families arriving at their new destination.

More villages like Marocane are being created in a number of Cabo Delgado districts.

Secretary of State for Cabo Delgado, Armindo Ngunga, says more than 75 percent of Pemba’s population is now made up of internally displaced persons, fleeing the war in northern districts.