Informes

The Government of the Republic of Botswana on 3rd February, 2012, donated food supplies and blankets to the Government of the Republic of Mozambique as humanitarian relief assistance. This follows the recent heavy floods in the southern…

Contact: Rachel E. L. Wolff Sr. Director, World Vision News Bureau +1.253.394.2214 (24/7 mobile) +1.253.815.2072 (office) Skype: globalwolff Maputo, Mozambique (January 31, 2012) — World Vision has started distributing water purifiers in some of the areas hit by heavy rains and…

WFP is working to provide emergency food assistance to some 83,000 people affected by cyclones and severe flooding in Mozambique. Distributions started in early February in central Zambezia province. MAPUTO -- Food distributions began on 2 February…

CHF 297,349 has been allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) to support the Red Cross Society of Mozambique (CVM) in delivering immediate assistance to 4,000 of the most vulnerable households in the…

I. HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES • Tropical Cyclone Funso is still in the Mozambique Channel, bringing rainfall to the coasts of Mozambique and Madagascar, but not expected to make landfall. • More than 51,000 have been affected by flooding in southern…

I. HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES In total, an estimated 116,333 people have been affected, among them 40 deaths due to two tropical storms between 18 and 26 January 2012; however, this number is expected to continue as assessment is…

The Japanese government is to provide Mozambique with rice valued at $7.1 million under an agreement signed in Maputo on 10 January by Mozambican Deputy Foreign Minister Eduardo Koloma and Japanese ambassador Eiji Hashimoto. The rice is…

I. HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES · Mozambique’s Technical Council of Disaster Management is considering issuing a Red Alert following the escalation of Tropical Storm Funso to a category three tropical cyclone. · Tropical Storms Dando, a category one storm with…

FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT The start of the 2011/12 cropping season was characterised by erratic rains Maize prices remained stable during the last quarter of 2011 Overall food security is satisfactory, but populations affected by production losses in 2011 require…

JOHANNESBURG, 29 November 2011 (IRIN) - A helping of an orange coloured sweet potato just twice a week could save lives in Mozambique. This is no ordinary sweet potato - it has been bred to have…