“These are vulnerable families made up of the elderly, orphaned children and people with disabilities who are suffering from a food shortage,” said Jaime Mugabe, quoted today by public broadcaster Rádio Moçambique (RM).
According to the administrator, the insecurity is the result of the “failure” of the current agricultural season, due to the El Niño weather phenomenon.
In response, the National Institute for Social Action (INAS) is carrying out food distribution campaigns for affected families.
“The beneficiaries will receive a basic food basket made up of rice, corn flour, beans, cooking oil and salt, for a period of three months,” he explained.
At the end of September, the President of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, called on the population and organizations to prepare for the foreseeable effects of the El Niño phenomenon on the country in the coming months, with predictions of above-normal rainfall and outbreaks of drought.
Mozambique is considered one of the countries most severely affected by global climate change, facing cyclical floods and tropical cyclones during the rainy season, which runs from October to April.
El Niño is a change in atmospheric dynamics caused by an increase in ocean temperature. This meteorological phenomenon is also causing torrential rains in East Africa, which have already caused hundreds of deaths in Kenya, Burundi, Tanzania, Somalia and Ethiopia.
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