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Story | 11 August 2025
Emergency
Mozambique
- 5 million
- food-insecure people
- 1.4 million
- people affected by cyclones Chido, Dikeledi and Jude
- US$147 million
- required for emergency response until October 2025
Mozambique is reeling from multiple crises, with conflict, displacement, drought, cyclones and social unrest affecting millions of people across the country.
Preliminary numbers indicate that a record 5 million people are food insecure and need urgent support.
Drought has upended the lives of more than 3 million people in central and southern provinces. At the same time, escalating violence in northern Mozambique has displaced 715,000 people, while cyclones Chido, Dikeledi and Jude have affected 1.4 million people.
Even before the dramatic uptick in violence, Cabo Delgado Province had the highest rates of chronic malnutrition in Mozambique, with more than half of children under 5 affected.
The ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ (WFP) delivered life-saving food assistance to 2.1 million people in 2024, though our support had to be reduced to 520,000 people due to lack of funding.
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳urgently requires US$147 million to deliver life-saving assistance up to October 2025.
What the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ is doing to respond to the Mozambique emergency
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Northern emergency response
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ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳continues to provide food assistance to the most vulnerable people, but with a reduced frequency due to reduced funding. School meals, acute malnutrition treatment and income-generating agricultural activities will continue. A vulnerability-based targeting exercise is in place to ensure the most vulnerable people are not left behind.
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El Ni?o drought response
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Cyclone season
How you can help
Please donate today and help life-saving food reach those families who need it most.