Informes

Listening to the voices of resettled communities in Mualadzi, Mozambique EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Involuntary resettlement is a deeply complex and disruptive process, with potential to place vulnerable populations at great risk. This report presents experiences of involuntary resettlement from…

*Mozambique was declared free of landmines in September 2015. Handicap International played a leading role there since launching its demining efforts in 1998. Deminers have since cleared more than 16 million square meters of land, neutralized…

Mozambique - As the Mozambican government finalizes the country’s 2015/16 disaster contingency plan over the next four days, IOM is helping mainstream gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and other protection issues into Camp Coordination and Camp…

MAPUTO, Sept 29 (Reuters) - More than 20 people were killed in a shootout at the weekend between Mozambican forces and gunmen in a convoy carrying the leader of the main opposition party, a government spokesman…

Summary The Council of Ministers declared an institutional red alert on 12 January 2015 after a period of heavy rainfall caused severe flooding across central and northern Mozambique. According to the National Institute of Disaster Management (INGC)…

OVERVIEW Displaced families in Mozambique’s Zambezia Province continue to search for stability after severe flooding in early 2015 caused mass evacuations in low-lying areas of the region. After coordinating initial relief operations, the Government of Mozambique has…

2014 IN REVIEW The small victories which motivate us Message from Koenraad Vanormelingen, Representative UNICEF Mozambique The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Mozambique has one of the most critical and sensitive mandates, which is that of caring for…

By Mark Dybul Mozambique decriminalized its homosexuality laws last week. Until then, the country’s old, colonial penal code – in what it termed as “vices against nature” – had made same-sex relations a crime. A new penal…

OVERVIEW Four months after heavy rainfall caused extreme flooding and mass evacuations in Mozambique’s Zambezia Province, the vast majority of displaced families continue to reside within relocation sites. The National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) coordinated the…

QUICK FIGURES Approximately 12,166 displaced families were identified within 45 relocation sites in Zambezia Province The highest number of displaced families (2,960 families) were recorded in the district of Maganja da Costa 34 of 45 assessed sites are official…