Africa: Mozambique Can Learn From Other African Countries About Hosting IDPs

Assisting internally displaced people is crucial for humanitarian and security reasons, but the government has no plan to support them.

Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado insurgency has displaced over a million people nationwide since it began in 2017. Some have returned home, but over 700 000 remain displaced.

Pemba, the capital of the terrorism-affected Cabo Delgado province, hosts the largest number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in the country – around 132 000. By March 2022, at the peak of the…