780,000 people have lost their homes in Mozambique due to violence - MDD The UN refugee chief issued a fresh warning on Thursday that more ...

 780,000 people have lost their homes in Mozambique due to violence - MDD

The UN refugee chief issued a fresh warning on Thursday that more than 780,000 people have been displaced in Mozambique, most of them due to a seven-year insurgency by the jihadist group that has engulfed the country's north. in confusion.

- Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, paid a visit to Cabo Delgado province in the north of Mozambique, where a group linked to the IS group is attacking communities. Since 2017, 1.3 million people have been forced to leave their homes to escape the killings and beheadings.

Some who have lost their homes in Mozambique due to riots

About 600,000 returned home, where they found communities in ruins where all homes, businesses, churches, schools and medical facilities were destroyed.

Grandi's visit came at the same time as there is an increase in new attacks by the IS group in Mozambique in the town of Cabo Delgado since January after having some peace in 2023.

The attacks have left 80,000 people newly displaced, bringing the number of people who have been forced to leave their homes and villages and are currently displaced from Mozambique to more than three-quarters of a million, according to the United Nations. .

Some humanitarian organizations have estimated that the number of people who have been forced to leave their villages due to the violence in the north of the country since January is over 100,000.

Grandi called for "continued involvement from the international community" to help Mozambique, with the United Nations humanitarian program in the southern African country facing a funding gap.

The United Nations needs $400 million to help people in Mozambique this year alone and has received pledges of 5% of the required funds, said Robert Piper, Special Adviser on Refugees to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. United Nations António Guterres.