Maputo — The northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado needs at least 12,000 tonnes of food a month to cater for the requirements of hundreds of thousands of people displaced from their homes by islamist terrorists, according to Cesar Tembe, national director of the prevention and mitigation division of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Institute (INGD).
Speaking in Maputo on Monday, after he had been sworn into office, Tembe said that "assessing the total number of displaced people, we would need an average of about 12,000 tonnes of various foodstuffs per month".
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