In Mozambique, the World Food Program announced this Friday that in February it will stop providing food aid to around one million people displaced by the terrorist attacks in Cabo Delgado.

The World Food Program's decision will also cover families hosting displaced people from the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Nampula and Niassa. The announcement was made by the WFP's representative in Mozambique, Antonella D`Aprile: "To illustrate the difficulty we have at the moment, the World Food Program with the government because we don't have [enough] funds, so we have to suspend humanitarian food assistance in the month of February."

Antonella D`Aprile explained that the suspension in February is to "provide food assistance in the month of March, which is still in the middle [of the period] of scarcity".

According to the WFP representative, quoted by RFI, for the next six months, the organization needs 102.5 million dollars to provide food assistance to those displaced by the terrorist attacks.

The province of Cabo Delgado has been facing an armed insurgency for five years, with some attacks claimed by the self-styled extremist group Islamic State. The insurgency led to a military response a year ago, with support from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), but new waves of attacks have emerged in the south of the region and in the neighboring province of Nampula.

In five years, the conflict has displaced one million people, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and caused around 4,000 deaths, according to the ACLED conflict registration project.