The International Organization for Migration is supporting 22,000 of the approximately 100,000 people displaced in the province of Cabo Delgado due to terrorist attacks, but warned that it is running out of resources.”This alarming number represents the second largest wave of displacement in Cabo Delgado since the start of the conflict in 2017, highlighting the deepening of the humanitarian crisis”, warns the institution, referring to the more than 112,000 displaced people registered in the current wave of attacks, since the end of December, from of which almost 100,000 in the last month.”Despite these efforts”, the IOM, cited by DW, emphasizes that the magnitude of the crisis continues to exceed the available resources, highlighting a gap that needs to be urgently filled. In that agency’s most recent weekly bulletin intergovernmental organization, which Lusa reported on March 5th, the IOM counts the displacement of people caused by the attacks that occurred between February 8th and March 3rd, especially in the districts of Chiúre and Macomia, respectively with 91,239 and 5,719 displaced in that period, mainly (62 percent) children (61,492).”The attacks and the fear of attacks by armed groups”, describes the IOM, occurred mainly in Ocua, Mazeze and Chiúre-Velho, in the district of Chiúre, with displaced people fleeing to the town of Chiúre (28,754) or to Erati, in the neighboring province of Nampula (45,957). In the same bulletin, cited by DW, the IOM states that between December 22, 2023 and March 3, 2024, “sporadic attacks and fear of attacks by armed groups” in Macomia, Chiúre, Mecufi, Mocímboa da Praia and Muidumbe have already led to the flight of 24,241 families, totaling 112,894 people. Source:O País
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