A plan to return the population to their areas of origin will be operationalized in the next two weeks, in coordination with the Defense and Security Forces (FDS), so that they can work in their farms and ensure their subsistence.

The announcement was made by the governor of Cabo Delgado, Valige Tauabo, who a few days ago visited the district of Meluco, in Cabo Delgado, to monitor the political-social and economic situation, after the terrorist actions in January.

Data advanced by Tauabo indicate that, because of the attacks, more than four thousand hectares of diverse crops of the current agricultural harvest (2021/2022) were abandoned by the peasants during the hasty flight.

"We will work, in coordination with the SDS, to ensure the return of the population and thus recover the agricultural areas," the governor stressed to the News.

The terrorist attacks in January on the villages of Bada Iba, Nagoro, Bitola, 1.º de Maio, Simuco, Migonha, among others, caused hundreds of people to flee to different parts of Cabo Delgado province.

Still in Cabo Delgado, the district administrator of Montepuez, Isaura Máquina, who a few days ago visited the resettlement center of Nacaca, in the Nicuapa district, where about six thousand families from the districts of Mocímboa da Praia, Macomia, Quissanga and Muidumbe are hosted, showed concern about the refusal of the population to make machambas to reduce food dependency.

Máquina, who met with the displaced, visited some of the locals' agricultural fields, and noted with satisfaction that the vegetative growth of the crops heralded a good agricultural season. The administrator asked the population to be more vigilant in order to avoid the infiltration of terrorists in their midst.