"Tripal Crisis" Leaves 5.2 Million People in Need of Assistance in Mozambique, UN Guarantee

Women and children, in particular, face "serious risks" in terms of protection, said the coordinator for West and Central Africa of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

In 2024, some 295 million people went hungry acutely every day, almost 14 million more people in 2023, while the number of people on the brink of starvation doubled, reaching 1.9 million people.

UNHCR's alert came one day after the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimated that more than 3.4 million Mozambican children need urgent support and called for increased humanitarian response to growing needs in the country

The co-ordinator and Deputy Director for West and Central Africa of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) stressed that the reality is particularly serious in the province of Cabo Delgado. Xavier Creach said that the activity of non-State armed groups has increased the number of displacements and destruction of infrastructures, as well as difficulties in recovery efforts. More than 25,000 Mozambicans in the north of the count…