Rapports

Response has improved, but continued monitoring is critical Food security monitoring by the Technical Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition (SETSAN) indicates that 801,000 people are in need of immediate food assistance, due primarily to increasingly limited…

SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS Because of the very limited water availability, poor second season crop production, resource constraints for food aid, high food prices, and exhausted coping strategies, food security conditions have deteriorated in much of southern and…

Geneva, November 22, 2005 - The situation in rural areas of Mozambique stemming from a prolonged drought, as in several other countries in eastern and southern Africa, has been deteriorating in the last several months. Added to the drought…

Minister Paulo Ivo Garrido announces final results that confirm the vaccination of around 8.2 million children Maputo, 18 November 2005 - Around 8.2 million children have been reached during a recent national vaccination campaign in Mozambique, the Minister of Health,…

MAPUTO - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a donation of 500,000 Euros (14.7 billion Meticais) from the Irish Government which will be used to assist Mozambicans affected by the country's fourth consecutive year of drought. "WFP…

Escalating food insecurity as the hunger season sets in While food insecurity is worsening in drought affected areas of southern and central Mozambique, it has also become an increasing concern in a number of other districts in…

HIGHLIGHTS Regional: Food security is deteriorating in much of the region with the onset of the hunger season. Malnutrition is increasing as a result, with the situation in Malawi of ongoing concern. Governments and the humanitarian community are responding. Funds…

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2005 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced that it will donate 3,000 metric tons of soybean oil to the Republic of Mozambique. Mozambique will sell the commodity and use the proceeds to increase exports of…

Appeal Target: USD 1,328,465 Dear Colleagues, The current situation in the rural communities across Mozambique points to a deteriorating food security situation. Seven provinces - Maputo, Gaza, Inhambane in the southern region, Sofala, Manica, Tete and Zambezia in the Central regions…

SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS With the hunger season setting in, the food security situation is likely to deteriorate, particularly as the WFP pipeline is undersupplied and maize prices are escalating more rapidly than usual for this time of…