The interruption of the supply of food aid to northern Mozambique has been postponed for two months, but remains imminent due to lack of funds, a World Food Program (WFP) source said on Thursday, in response to questions raised by Lusa.
“If new funds are not received urgently, the WFP risks having to discontinue assistance that saves lives in August 2022″, announced the United Nations agency.
In April, WFP was forced to reduce the baskets delivered to the displaced of the armed insurgency affecting Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, and warned of a possible rupture in June.
Disruption averted, but basket rationing continues.
“Due to reduced funds, WFP was forced to halve the food basket delivered, which means that [os beneficiários] they receive food to supply less than 40% of their caloric needs,” he explained.
“The WFP urgently needs 86 million dollars (80.4 million euros) to provide food assistance to 940,000 people in the north in the next six months,” that is, until the end of the year, he explained.
The population in which approximately half are children and youthhe runs away and leaves everything he has, looking for refuge in safe areas of Cabo DelgadoNampula and Niassa.
Cabo Delgado province is rich in natural gas but has been terrorized since 2017 by armed rebels, with some attacks claimed by the Islamic State extremist group.
Since July 2021, an offensive by government troops with the support of Rwanda, to which the Southern African Development Community (SADC) later joined, has allowed the recovery of areas where there was a presence of rebels, but their flight has provoked new attacks. . in other districts used as a step or temporary shelter.
Source: Observadora
