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UN Appeals for $254 Million to Assist Victims of Violence in Mozambique

Lisa Schlein

   GENEVA - The United Nations is appealing for $254 million to provide
   life-saving assistance for 1.1 million people caught in a devastating
   cycle of violence and abuse in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province.

   U.N. agencies report a sharp escalation in the number of people fleeing
   the chaos in Cabo Delgado. Increasing attacks and fighting by non-state
   armed groups, they say, have displaced nearly 530,000 people in
   Mozambique's Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Zambezia and Niassa provinces. This
   is nearly five times the number registered in March.

   The U.N. refugee agency calls this volatile, unstable region a
   protection crisis. It says more than 2,000 people have been killed
   since the conflict started in 2017, and notes many of the more than
   half a million civilians on the run have been forced to move multiple
   times.

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