Médecins Sans Frontières - 3 Questions: The impact of conflict in Cabo Delgado INT

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB66109

Date taken / Date Recorded 06/04/2021 10:47 PM

Country Mozambique

Commissioning section MSF-SOUTH AFRICA

Photographer / videographer / producer Tadeu Andre

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Duration 3m31s

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Additional Information / Shotlist 0:12
Since 2017, there has been a conflict taking place between non state armed groups and the governments of Mozambique in the province of Cabo Delgado. It's resulted in large scale destruction and displacement.

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More than half a million people have been displaced, about 670,000 people have fled for their lives.

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Schools have been destroyed, hospitals have been destroyed, and people have found themselves living in terrible conditions where they've sought safety.

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Towards the end of this or towards the end of March, an attack took place in the town of Palma.

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Palma was a place where displaced people had already come to look for safety that fled from other parts of the province, looking for safety.

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And instead, they ended up having to flee into the bush during a period of intense violence that lasted over a period of days.

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Many of them went into hiding. They didn't eat drink, or for days at a time.

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When a place is attacked in Cabo Delgado people flee the area they often flee into the bush and remain in hiding for a period of time.

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Sometimes days they wait for a moment where they're able to continue their journey to safety.

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Sometimes they're walking for days at a time to reach a place where they where they feel safe.

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Often families are separated, they've experienced severely traumatic events during the flight.

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Many of them have their houses destroyed, their livelihoods destroyed.

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And when they arrive in places of safety. Sometimes they're hosted by fellow community members, often overcrowded conditions, where the there's often a lack of access to basic services because there's a strain placed on on existing services such as health care or water.

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Others are finding refuge in camps, which are often around the capital of Pemba. There the the conditions are extremely difficult.

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There's overcrowding, there's a lack of access to safe drinking water shelter and there's a real concern for for outbreaks of diseases such as cholera.

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Of course, COVID-19 in such a context is extremely difficult.

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What's needed in Cabo Del Gado is the basic necessities to sustain life.

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People need water, food, healthcare shelter, we're talking about emergencies for a population that has been uprooted and displaced and found safety in extremely difficult conditions.

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Others are still trapped in places where there is insecurity and they to be provided with access to the most essential services to sustain life.

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What we've seen in Cabo Delgado, is that the the level of the humanitarian response just doesn't match the level of needs are far higher than the response that we're seeing on the ground.

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And we need to see that scaled up. The challenge we face in scaling up that response is often due to restrictions that are placed on us in terms of bringing in medical supplies and additional resources. And those restrictions need to be lifted for the entire response to be increased for the urgent needs of the population.

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