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WFP Mozambique Country Brief, January 2021
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5,721.9 mt of food assistance distributed
USD 2.03 million cash-based transfers made
US$ 81.5 m six months (February 2021 – July 2021) net funding requirements
Operational Updates
• Cyclone Eloise made landfall in Sofala province on 23 January, affecting over 441,000 people and displacing more than 43,000. In the aftermath of the cyclone, WFP supported 35,000 people evacuated and displaced in temporary accommodation centres in Sofala province. WFP is currently designing a programme to support those who will face long-term consequences of cyclone Eloise.
• According to the Government, 565,000 people are known to be displaced in Cabo Delgado out of which some have moved towards Nampula, Niassa and Zambezia provinces. In January 2021, WFP provided food assistance to 270,725 IDPs in the province of Cabo Delgado and Nampula. The January cycle of food distributions will continue into February due to operational challenges.
Supporting water and disaster risk management in Mozambique using Google Earth Engine
Cyclone Eloise just hit Mozambique’s Sofala coastal province at the end of last month, displacing thousands of people and ruining crops
[1]. The authorities are still gauging the full extent of the damage by severe winds and heavy rains across the rest of the region, but this is nothing that Mozambique has had to face for the first time. Throughout its history, the country has coped with a succession of cyclones and floods and has been repeatedly exposed to disastrous events in recent years.
Mozambique’s geographic position, location, and size leave the country vulnerable to extreme and complex hydrological hazards