UNHCR Southern Africa Region External Update #11 (20 March 2025)

HIGHLIGHTS

• The European Union reaffirmed its commitment to supporting government reforms during a meeting with Mozambique’s Executive Coordinator of the Government’s Office of Reforms and Strategic Projects (GREP).
• Nearly 340,000 people have been affected, and thousands displaced across Madagascar, Malawi, and Mozambique after Tropical Storm Jude swept through Southern Africa, leaving widespread destruction.
• The Eswatini government and UNHCR continue efforts to inform asylum seekers who fled the post- election violence in Mozambique, about available readmission support for those wishing to return.
• The voluntary repatriation of asylum seekers who fled post-election violence in Mozambique to Malawi has been completed. A total of 7,076 individuals returned to Mozambique out of the 7,904 registered asylum seekers.