Africa-Press – Mozambique. The United Nations needs $222 million (€196 million) this year to help around 1.4 million Mozambicans affected by the drought associated with the El Niño weather phenomenon.
According to a report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), consulted today by Lusa, only $41.5 million (€37 million), or 19%, of the necessary funding has been disbursed.
“The financial shortfall has severely limited the ability of humanitarian actors to provide timely and adequate aid to those in need,” the document states.
According to the UN agency, the funding will be used in the areas of food security and livelihoods, with $199 million (€176 million), water, sanitation and hygiene, with $11 million (€9.7 million), and nutrition and general protection, with $11.7 million (€10 million).
Of the 1.4 million people in need, OCHA has already reached a total of 460,000 people, the document explains.
Mozambique is considered one of the countries most severely affected by global climate change, facing cyclical floods and tropical cyclones during the rainy season, which runs from October to April.
El Niño is a change in atmospheric dynamics caused by an increase in ocean temperature. This meteorological phenomenon is also causing torrential rains in East Africa, which have already caused hundreds of deaths in several countries, such as Kenya, Burundi, Tanzania, Somalia and Ethiopia.
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