CARE Responds to Cyclone Eloise in Mozambique, Early Assessments Show Disaster Preparedness Paid Off
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Maputo, Mozambique January 27 2021 – Cyclone Eloise hit Central East Mozambique on Saturday January 23 affecting some 250,000, damaging over 17,000 houses and displacing families, and leaving at least 7 people dead. While figures are still likely to rise, early response measures by NGOs, local organisations and government have helped to prevent more widescale destruction and loss of life. One thing that we have really seen is that disaster preparedness work has really paid off with Eloise. The fact that agencies and government worked hard before the cyclone hit to evacuate people and we mobilized communities to raise awareness, means the death toll at least remains low, says Marie David, CARE Mozambique, Acting Assistant Country Director.
Growing confidence of ASWJ militants presages increasingly sophisticated attacks over expanded area of operations in Mozambique s Cabo Delgado
14 December 2020
Growing confidence of ASWJ militants presages increasingly sophisticated attacks over expanded area of operations in Mozambique s Cabo Delgado
by Heather Nicell
At least 25 soldiers were killed and 15 others were wounded during an ambush by Islamist militants in the village of Matambalale in Muidumbe district in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province on 29 November. Although at the time of writing no group claimed responsibility for the attack, the perpetrators are likely to be from Ahlu Sunna wal-Jamaa (ASWJ), a local non-state armed group that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in July 2019 and which operates under the latter’s Wilayat Wasat Afriqiyya, or Central Africa Province. The ambush marks the deadliest attack targeting security forces in the province, recorded by