Africa-Press – Mozambique. The US will provide an additional $116 million (€114 million) this year to support people who have been internally displaced in Mozambique due to armed violence in Cabo Delgado province, in the north of the country, an official source said on Thursday.
With the new amount, US assistance to Mozambique this year so far amounts to $167 million, said Uzra Zeya, the US under secretary for civil security, democracy and human rights, during a news conference after a meeting with the country’s president, Filipe Nyusi.
“With this support the US will help around 800,000 internally displaced people,” said Zeya, noting that the amount will be used for “food and nutritional assistance and to meet the health, water and agricultural needs” of those who are displaced.
Cabo Delgado is rich in natural gas, but since 2017 has been terrorised by armed rebels, with responsibility for some attacks claimed by a lcal affiliate of the extremist group Islamic State.
The conflict has displaced around 800,000 people internally, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and about 4,000 people have been killed, according to the ACLED conflict registration project.
Since July last year, an offensive by government troops with Rwandan support, later joined by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), has made it possible to recover areas where rebels had been present, but their flight has provoked new attacks in other districts used as passage or refuge.
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