The country’s National Disaster Management Institute (INGD) has warned that humanitarian assistance in the northern province of Cabo Delgado is under pressure from the combination of terrorist raids and climatic shocks, which affect the same communities.

The INGC Cabo Delgado delegate, Marques Naba, said the humanitarian response must be adjusted to “a complex and simultaneous scenario’. Naba said that during the current rainy season, 4,570 houses were affected, of which 1,316 were destroyed.

At least 434,000 people remain displaced by conflict in Cabo Delgado. But 678,000 people who had been formerly displaced have been able to return to their home areas.