Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Humanitarian Response Plan for Mozambique this year secured just over half of the amount it sought to raise to help 1.5 million people in the country, its most recent operational report announces.
“At the end of October, the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), having received $222 million [about €210 million], is 57% funded,” reads the document consulted today by Lusa.
This plan gathers information from 48 Mozambican and foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as well as United Nations agencies.
“At least 1.5 million people in northern Mozambique need life-saving and life-sustaining humanitarian assistance and protection in 2022 as a result of the continued impact of armed conflict, violence and insecurity in Cabo Delgado province,” the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Affairs Humanitarian Organizations (OCHA) document highlights.
The conflict “has heightened food insecurity and malnutrition, with families forced to abandon their homes and fields” and “erratic rainfall in some parts of the region has compounded crop losses”.
“Humanitarian needs are concentrated in the districts most affected by the conflict – Macomia, Mocímboa da Praia, Palma and Quissanga – as well as in those that are home to the largest number of displaced people: Chiure, Metuge, Montepuez, Mueda, Nangade and Pemba,” the document details.
Some areas of humanitarian aid are in a more critical situation, such as education, camp management and responses to displacement.
The most celebrated statistic of the year has been the reduction of food aid to around 40% of each person’s daily needs.
According to the OCHA document, the US is the largest donor to the plan, being responsible for about two thirds of the amount delivered until October 31st.
Cabo Delgado province is rich in natural gas, but has been terrorized since 2017 by armed violence in which some attacks are claimed by the extremist Islamic State group.
The insurgency led to a military response a year ago with support from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), freeing districts next to natural gas projects in the province, but new waves of violence emerged in the south of the region and in neighbouring Nampula.
In five years, the conflict has displaced one million people, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and killed around 4,000, according to the ACLED conflict registry project.
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