The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has recorded the return of 420,000 internally displaced people to their areas of origin in Mozambique in recent months.

According to the UNHCR's monthly situation report, almost 900,000 people remain internally displaced due to Islamist-oriented terrorist violence and the "devastating impact of the climate crisis".

Meanwhile, on the climate crisis, the source points out that Mozambique is "one of the most affected countries in the world and that the double passage of tropical cyclone Freddy, in February and March 2023, a year after one of the most devastating tropical cyclones, Gombe, had more than a million people affected, in addition to the destruction of various infrastructures, and the displacement of 184,000 people".

Apart from that, according to the UNHCR, quoted by AIM, Mozambique is also home to 30,000 refugees and asylum seekers.

The UN organization has been working with partners, including the Mozambican government, to provide services and assistance to refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced people, returnees and host communities.

However, as of July 20 this year, it had only received 19.3 million US dollars of its annual budget for Mozambique of 47.5 million programmed.

In terms of needs, the most affected area is the northern province of Cabo Delgado, which has been plagued by terrorism since 2017.

The UNHCR notes that 834,304 people are still internally displaced in northern Mozambique.

It estimates that 65 percent of them live in host communities and the rest in resettlement centers.

There is also a need to support host communities so that they don't have to bear the burden of displaced people, whether family members or not.