The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that over one million people are facing severe hunger in northern Mozambique, where hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced following the jihadist insurgency being witnessed in the region.
WEF gave this warning on Tuesday during a news conference in Geneva.
‘As the security situation continues to deteriorate, more than 950,000 people in the north of Mozambique are now facing severe hunger,’ Tomson Phiri, a spokesman for the WFP was quoted to have said.
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Islamic State-linked militants have escalated attacks in Mozambique’s northernmost province, Cabo Delgado, in the past year.
They were also murdering villagers, fighting the army, and seizing towns from the people.
Mozambique is a country in East Africa.
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
