Mozambique Needs Urgent Aid Amidst Humanitarian Crisis

National Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction says Mozambique urgently needs Aid amidst a deepening humanitarian crisis after deadly attacks by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group.

The assault on the town lasted 12 days before the Mozambican military said on Monday it had regained control of the town.

Cesar Tembe, director of the Prevention and Mitigation Area said the needs for assistance for about one month for displaced people coming from Palma, about 30,000 people, are estimated at about 600,000 US dollars.

On March 24, the northern Cabo Delgado province took a turn for the worst after their latest attack on the town of Palma in which thousands of people were killed and tens of thousands made homeless.

Thousands poured into Cabo Delgado’s capital Pemba, which is already brimming with people displaced by previous attacks and the 2019 cyclone.

The attack also forced French energy giant Total to suspend operations and evacuate staff from its Afungi liquid natural gas (LNG) facility near Palma.

The homegrown militancy, Al-Shabaab, has grown in power since 2017 and in capturing towns, committing brutal killings on civilians with over 700,000 displaced across Mozambique.