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By Reuters Staff 3 Min Read JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - More than half a million people have fled their homes due to an Islamist insurgency in northern Mozambique, and the violence and humanitarian crisis will worsen without international help, United Nations officials said on Wednesday. “If nothing is done soon, we won’t have only 535,000 displaced people. We won’t have only 2,000 people killed by the conflict, but tens of thousands,” said Valentin Tapsoba, regional director for the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR). The displaced people were in a dire situation, with overcrowding, ...

As the humanitarian crisis deepens in Mozambique, with hundreds of thousands fleeing a deadly Islamist insurgency, the United Nations launched an appeal on Friday for $254 million. A group known locally as Al-Shabab unleashed a violent campaign in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province in 2017 that has since killed more than 2,300 people and forced up to 420,000 to flee, according to the agency. The UN expects the situation to worsen and warned that 1.1 million people would need help next year. "We definitely need the international community to act, and acting is acting now. We should not wait," ...

According to the United Nations, more than 1 million people will need help next year. The country's military now controls swathes of the coast. The United Nations launched an appeal Friday for $254 million to help hundreds of thousands caught in an Islamist insurgency aimed at carving out a caliphate in northern Mozambique. A group known locally as Al-Shabab unleashed a violent campaign in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province in 2017 that has since killed more than 2 300 people and forced hundreds of thousands to flee. The UN said many people fled with just the clothes they were wearing and wa...

U.N.: Jihadis Displace Nearly Half a Million in Mozambique 14 Dec 2020 The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said Monday that jihadi attacks in northern Mozambique have prompted at least 424,000 people to flee their homes, devastating a region that was only just beginning to recover from Cyclone Kenneth in 2019. UNHCR warned the conflict could spread beyond Mozambique and create even more refugees. “This is a situation starting in one country but if all the countries don’t get their act together to tackle it and wait too long, it could spread within the sub-region,” U...

defenceWeb Written by Reuters - 248 At least 400 000 people have fled militant attacks in northern Mozambique, the United Nations refugee agency said, warning that the crisis could quickly spread beyond the country’s borders if regional neighbours did not help tackle the insurgency. Mozambique’s northernmost province of Cabo Delgado, home to gas developments worth some $60 billion, is grappling with an insurgency linked to Islamic State that has gathered pace this year, with insurgents regularly taking on the army and seizing entire towns. Valentin Tapsoba, the southern African head of t...