Press release
Estimated 375,000 children at high risk in Mozambique after Cyclone Jude hits the country - UNICEF
MAPUTO, 13 March 2025 – The third cyclone to hit Mozambique in as many months has destroyed schools, cutting nearly 20,000 children off from education, and damaging or destroying over 20,000 homes, initial reports suggest. An estimated 747,000 people, half of them children, are expected to be affected by the high ...
Appeal
Flash Appeal: Mozambique Tropical Cyclones
This Emergency Response Plan focuses on delivering life-saving, and life-sustaining assistance and protection to 550,000 people out of 560,000 people estimated to be in need between December 2024 and June 2025. This Emergency Response Plan complements the Government’s response efforts by focusing on the immediate ...
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Sweden, WFP, and UNICEF join forces to support children and young people in Palma, Cabo Delgado
Maputo, 11 February 2025- The Government of Sweden, the World Food Programme (WFP), and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) are launching a new joint programme to support children and young people in Cabo Delgado’s Palma district. With the ongoing conflict, children and youth in Cabo Delgado face critical ...
Article
Cyclone Chido: UNICEF supports victims in the most affected districts in Cabo Delgado
Mecufi, Cabo Delgado Province - Albertina Momade, 44, a mother of four, narrowly escaped harm when her house collapsed during Cyclone Chido in the district of Mecufi. "It all started with heavy rain all night and until then we weren't scared. But when that wind started to really blow I started to get scared. We de...
Appeal
Humanitarian Action for Children 2025
The poly-crisis in Mozambique—conflict, drought and public health emergencies—are stretching humanitarian resources. Approximately 4.8 million people require humanitarian assistance (10 per cent persons with disabilities), including 3.4 million children. In conflict-affected Cabo Delgado, more than 1.3 million in...
Report
El Niño in Mozambique - August 2024
Mozambique is facing increasing rates of malnutrition, particularly in children under five, following poor harvests due to El Niño-induced drought. There are 1 million more people at crisis levels of food security in 2024 than in 2023 and projections indicate a continued deterioration until the next harvest in Apr...
Report
Child-centred risk assessment and climate change vulnerability analysis
Mozambique is increasingly vulnerable to environmental and socio-economic hazards, the prevalence and intensity of which have increased over recent years.In 2019, Cyclones Idai and Kenneth were some of the most devastating the country has ever seen, while the conflict in the north of the country has intensified si...
Press release
Amid escalating violence in Mozambique, 60,000 children displaced within a month
Maputo, Mozambique, 8 March 2024 – “In the past month, attacks and fear of attacks in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, have triggered the displacement of almost 100,000 people, including more than 60,000 children. “Children separated from their families are at risk of violence and exploitation, including recru...
Annual report
Mozambique Humanitarian Situation Report 2023
Multi-hazard events affected the entire country in 2023 affecting nearly 1.5 million people with 260 deaths. Conflict in the north continued in Cabo Delgado resulting in 111,000 new displacements The number of displaced in the north reduced by 35 per cent from over 1 million to nearly 669,000 and returnees increas...
Press release
In wake of Cyclone Freddy, amid disruption to critical services, cholera surges in Mozambique
Maputo, 20 March 2023 – One week after Cyclone Freddy made landfall for a second time in Mozambique, creating severe disruption to critical services, the threat of cholera is growing rapidly for children and families. Thanks to preparation efforts by Government, the number of deaths and people displaced by the cyc...
Press release
Children at risk of cholera in aftermath of Cyclone Freddy
NAIROBI/JOHANNESBURG/NEW YORK, 19 March 2023 – Millions of children are at risk in the face of a potential increase in cholera cases in Malawi and Mozambique in the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Freddy, which has ravaged both countries for the second time in less than a month. Devastation and flooding caused by th...
Article
Addressing the needs of children with disabilities affected by emergencies in Mozambique
Mozambique - In humanitarian interventions, the needs of children with disabilities are often overlooked. Previous years’ cyclones and other natural disasters, and ongoing conflict in northern Mozambique have displaced 1 million people, 50 per cent of them children. Already overwhelmed schools and healthcare facil...