I work for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Mozambique and am the focal person for HIV and tuberculosis in the district Cabo Delgado. It has been one of these weeks. We admitted three children as inpatients at the same time. The youngest is just one year old and is severely malnourished. Of the […]
Almost one million people[1] are currently displaced in northern Mozambique after fleeing their homes in search of safety, due to the conflict that started in Cabo Delgado province in October 2017. Many people have been displaced multiple times, needing to abandon their few possessions, means of survival, loved ones and communities during each displacement. […]
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Agy Agy, MSF logistics supervisor. Mozambique, 2022. Mariana Abdalla/MSF “I am in charge of doing distributions of relief items in various areas of Cabo Delgado. I started working for [Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières] MSF in my hometown, Mocímboa da Praia, but I was forced to move to the south of the province when […]
Read More… from Mozambique: “To be able to respond quickly … we must always be on alert”
The northern province of Cabo Delgado is one of Mozambique’s most volatile regions, the scene of an intense conflict since October 2017, resulting in some 800,000 people fleeing from their homes. These are the latest developments. 1. The violence has moved south, leading to new mass displacement Throughout June, fear of violence followed by confirmed […]
Read More… from Mozambique: Three new developments in the Cabo Delgado crisis
A recent surge in violence in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province has displaced thousands of people already affected by five years of conflict. Mozambique is one of the countries most at risk of extreme weather events, with an annual tropical storm cycle that leaves people with little time to recover between storms. On top of that, […]
The following is an op-ed by Jonathan Whittal, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Director of Analysis Department in Johannesburg. Three important developments took place in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province in less than six weeks, all of which will have a significant future impact on human lives. First, in mid-March the United States government designated […]
Read More… from Cabo Delgado, Mozambique: Focus on fighting ‘terrorists’ ignores humanitarian needs
As a highly infectious new strain of COVID-19 spreads through Southern Africa, health workers in Mozambique, Eswatini and Malawi are struggling to treat escalating numbers of patients with little prospect of a vaccine to protect them from the virus.
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MSF accelerates mobile clinic activities & clean water provision as more displaced people arrive in Pemba.
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Read More… from Violence in Mozambique: Thousands displaced and at risk of disease
The number of displaced people is growing in Cabo Delgado. In February, at least 200,000 people were displaced due to the conflict. Since, numerous attacks on villages across the region have uprooted thousands more from their homes. Armed groups are waging attacks in this complex, resource rich region. Today, the north of Mozambique is the epicenter […]