Just over 600 displaced young people living in the Meconta district of Nampula will benefit from short and long-term scholarships over the next five years. The scholarships aim to minimize the suffering and trauma they have experienced as a result of the terrorist actions, according to Rádio Moçambique. The initiative comes from...
More than thirty-two thousand families have been displaced in Cabo Delgado due to terrorist attacks since January this year, official sources said. The attacks were recorded in the districts of Chiúre, Ancuabe, Mecúfi, Metuge, Macomia, Mocímboa da praia, Quissanga and Ibo, where some families had to leave their home areas,...
Fishermen from the districts of Metuge, Mocímboa da Praia and Palma received fishing equipment this Tuesday (28) in Pemba, Cabo Delgado, through the government's Project for the Recovery of the Northern Crisis (PRCD). These are 73 boats with their respective means of catching and preserving fish, as well as the...
The attacks carried out by insurgents linked to the so-called Islamic State in Cabo Delgado province, northern Mozambique, over the last three weeks have forced 54,415 people to leave their homes. With these new figures released yesterday, Saturday (11), by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), quoted by VOA, the number of...
The Save the Children solidarity group announced earlier this month that more than 99,000 people had left their home areas as a result of the latest terrorist attacks in some districts of Cabo Delgado province. Among the displaced were 61,492 children. Of the 70,000 people who fled to Nampula, 85% were women,...
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, and the UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Solutions for Internally Displaced Persons, Robert Piper, today called for a renewed international commitment to find solutions for displaced people in Mozambique. "Mozambique has faced significant challenges linked to violence by non-state armed groups since...
The Governor of Nampula, Manuel Rodrigues, has urged the population of the Eráti district to redouble their vigilance in the face of the growing threat of terrorist attacks in some border districts of Cabo Delgado province. In the governor's view, the possibility of members of terrorist groups infiltrating the group of more than 45...
The new wave of displaced people, caused by new attacks by insurgents in the last four weeks, amounts to almost 100,000, according to a bulletin from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) released on Tuesday (5). According to records from the UN agency, which last week put the number of displaced at just over 57,000,...
In Nampula, the number of internally displaced people from the Chiúre district in Cabo Delgado, in the north of the country, has risen from 33,000 to 47,000 in a week, the authorities announced on Sunday (3). Faced with the situation, the governor of Nampula, Manuel Rodrigues, quoted by Rádio Moçambique, urged the Emergency Operational Committee (COE)...
Mozambican experts advocate the economic integration of families who have been victims of the terrorist attacks in Cabo Delgado. According to the rector of Joaquim Chissano University, Jamisse Taimo, the current model for assisting the victims of armed violence in Cabo Delgado does not solve the problem of the displaced, but on the contrary perpetuates the situation of beggars, because many of them have lost...