Children, women and the elderly who have fled their villages are sleeping in the open and without conditions, exposed to the harsh winter without blankets and very vulnerable to contracting the coronavirus, reported the Mozambican newspaper O País
In three years, terrorist attacks in the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado have displaced more than 200,000 people. In the escalation of the increasingly violent attacks, thousands continue to flee Islamic terrorism but against Covid-19.
According to a report in the Mozambican newspaper O País, there are many elderly people in the groups of fleeing villagers and also many women and children. They are exposed to all diseases, they sleep outside exposed to the harsh winter without blankets. Others spend their nights in confined places, little airy and that do not allow the minimum physical or social distance recommended by health authorities.
“We sleep on the floor and in the open with the children because the house where we were welcomed is small. We have no mats or blankets to protect ourselves from the cold”, says Fifa Abdala, a displaced woman from the Quissanga district and now welcomed by family members in one of the suburbs of Pemba Bay, the capital of Cabo Delgado.
This problem occurs in almost the entire province, but it is persistent in the district of Metuge, where around 7,000 displaced people who live in tents installed in three accommodation centers have been accommodated.
