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MozambiqueGDACS retained a Green alert for fire activity in Mozambique. Its satellite-derived event footprint covered 317,489 hectares between 3 and 18 September 2026, with an estimated 97,758 people living inside the burned-area footprint. That exposure estimate is not a confirmed count of people harmed or displaced. The accompanying NASA Worldview image combines…
MozambiquePemba – Hundreds of people displaced by recent attacks in Palma, northern Mozambique, have found temporary shelter this week in a transit centre established in Pemba City by the Government of Mozambique with support from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and partners. As of yesterday (08/04), IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) has…
MozambiqueUNHCR staff prepare to distribute sleeping mats and blankets to families fleeing violence in Palma, northern Mozambique. © UNHCR/Martim Gray Pereira UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, continues to work around the clock to assist thousands of people reaching safety in northern Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province. A recent attack by insurgents on the coastal…
MozambiqueThe World Food Programme (WFP) is working to assist more than 50,000 people affected by the deadly violence in Palma, a town in Mozambique's troubled Cabo Delgado region . “It’s a real humanitarian catastrophe,” says Lola Castro, WFP's Regional Director in Southern Africa, “people are heading all over the place — by boat, on foot, by road.” WFP is…
MozambiqueUNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, today launched a humanitarian appeal for $12 million USD to urgently provide life-saving sexual and reproductive health and protection services to 330,000 women, girls, and youth impacted by the humanitarian crisis in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, and the secondary impacts of COVID-19. The…
MozambiqueCyclone Eloise, which recently hit Sofala province central Mozambique, compounded by covid-19 and economic fallout from previous climate-fuelled disasters, has crippled people's ability to recover, and left over 260 thousand people in desperate need of humanitarian aid, said Oxfam. Around 142 thousand hectares of land and crops and over 16 thousand…
MozambiqueBEIRA, Mozambique/NEW YORK, 26 January 2021 –More than 176,000* people, including 90,000* children, in central Mozambique are likely to need humanitarian assistance in the aftermath of Cyclone Eloise, UNICEF said today. Children living in the affected areas, particularly those who have been displaced, could soon be at risk of contracting waterborne…
MozambiqueSOFALA, Mozambique —In the early hours of 23 January, Cyclone Eloise – a category two storm bringing winds of up to 160 kilometres per hour – made landfall in Sofala Province in central Mozambique, an area still recovering from the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai nearly two years ago. Heavy rains in the lead-up to Cyclone Eloise had already raised…
MozambiqueWFP is currently assisting up to 400,000 people in Cabo Delgado, Nampula and Niassa provinces with an in-kind monthly family food basket of 50 kg of cereals, 5 liters of oil and 10 kg of dried beans and lentils. WFP also provides cash-based assistance where local markets are functioning, allowing families to choose which basic needs to meet (food items…
MozambiqueApproximately 250,000 children have been displaced by the escalating crisis in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado and are now at risk of deadly diseases as the rainy season sets in, UNICEF warned today. The United Nations’ children’s agency is especially concerned that safe water, sanitation and hygiene services are insufficient to meet the…
MozambiqueThe funding will allow the United Nations and humanitarian partners to scale up the humanitarian response in northern Mozambique, where nearly 530,000 people have been forced from their homes due to the ongoing conflict. Maputo, 18 December 2020 - The United Nations and partners today launched an appeal for US$254 million to provide urgently needed…
MozambiqueOM/Matteo Theubet A group of people, having fled violence in several districts of Cabo Delgado, arrive in the provincial capital, Pebma. Between 16 and 26 October, the town saw the influx of over 10,000 displaced persons. The United Nations Secretary-General has called on the authorities in Mozambique to investigate the brutal killings, this past…
MozambiqueThe government in Mozambique reports that 22 people have died and 12 injured after heavy rains, and strong winds in several regions of the country since the beginning of October 2020. Government spokesperson and Deputy Justice Minister, Filimao Suaze, said 16,657 people from 3,695 families have been affected by floods in the provinces of Niassa, Nampula,…