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MOZAMBIQUE / HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
STORY: MOZAMBIQUE / HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
TRT: 3:05
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / MWANY / MACONDE / NATS
DATELINE: 7-15 APRIL 2021, CABO DELGADO, MOZAMBIQUE
7 APRIL 2021, CABO DELGADO, MOZAMBIQUE
1. Aerial shot, Pemba
13 APRIL 2021, CABO DELGADO, MOZAMBIQUE
2. Wide shots, makeshift tents set up by people displaced by attacks in Palma
15 APRIL 2021, CABO DELGADO, MOZAMBIQUE
3. Various shots, mothers getting their children tested for Moderate and Acute Malnutrition.
10 APRIL 2021, CABO DELGADO, MOZAMBIQUE
4. SOUNDBITE (Mwany) Nina Diadara, displaced person from Palma:
“They are killing us. They are burning houses, and they are taking our children. They are killing us with guns. We are desperate about the situation.”
5. Wide shot, Lucas Calendra, 73, who escaped the attacks in Palma with his wife by walking to Mueda through the bush, drinking water
6. Med shot, Lucas Calendra putting items in bucket
7. SOUNDBITE (Maconde) Lucas Calendra, displaced from Palma:
“We travelled for 6 days with no food. I had brought some food for the journey, but it only lasted 3 days. For the remaining days we had nothing.”
07 APRIL 2021, CABO DELGADO, MOZAMBIQUE
8. Various shots, WFP food aid being loaded onto boats for distribution
15 APRIL 2021, CABO DELGADO, MOZAMBIQUE
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Shelley Thakral, Communications Officer, World Food Programme (WFP):
“What we know is that people have been walking for days, some as many as 5, 6 days. They’ve hidden in the bush, again, without food and water just escaping with what they have. So, when they are arriving in places looking for safety, looking for shelter they are hungry they are tired, and they are traumatized by what they have also witnessed. So, for WFP it’s important that we get our immediate response rations to them as quickly as possible, and this is food that will last them for about 15 days. That’s rice that’s oil, beans, sardines and water.”
13 APRIL 2021, CABO DELGADO, MOZAMBIQUE
10. Various shots, internally displaced people waiting to receive WFP food aid.
10 APRIL 2021, CABO DELGADO, MOZAMBIQUE
11. Various shots, woman cooking rice
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned that Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province is in the grips of a spiralling crisis as thousands of people flee their homes amidst violence.
WFP said recent attacks in Palma have affected 50,000 people. Many have fled Palma to Pemba on boats making their perilous journey over choppy waters. Thousands are still trapped in Palma and Quitunda, and the UN agency said it was working round the clock to secure access to those most in need. WFP has also been using boats from Pemba to reach those in remote areas, on surrounding coastal islands.
Over the last week, there has been more rain in the region. WFP said the cyclone season still poses a threat to communities as the region is no stranger to extreme weather hazards.
WFP said hunger persists and children are worst affected, with malnutrition worryingly on the rise. A recent survey by UNICEF and WFP found that almost 21 percent of displaced children under 5, and 18 percent of host children are underweight. At the same time, the rates of chronic malnutrition, or stunting, which has lifelong consequences, are at an alarming 50 percent among displaced children and 41 percent among children from host communities.
WP said it was organizing emergency food distributions for families who have fled the violence in Palma. The Porgamme said it is providing high energy biscuits and immediate response rations comprised of rice, pulses, vegetable oil, canned foods such as sardines and beans, biscuits and water to distribute to people on the move. Thereafter they will be included in WFP’s regular monthly food assistance programme. WFP noted it plans to reach 50,000 people displaced from Palma.
Conflict continues to drive hunger in northern Mozambique as more than 950,000 people now face severe hunger. WFP is in the process of scaling-up its response in northern Mozambique, with plans to assist 750,000 internally displaced people and vulnerable members of the local community across the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Niassa, and Zambezia.
WFP said it urgently requires USD 82 million to respond to the crisis in northern Mozambique and support the vulnerable, largely women and children.
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