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Highlights
- UNICEF’s WASH, Child Protection, Health, Nutrition and Education teams participated in interagency assessments in both Chiure and Erati between February 23-24.
- Assessments show the need for increased support for water and sanitation, child protection, shelter, and civil documentation.
- Figures in Erati (Nampula) and Chiure (Cabo Delgado) are fluid. Registrations in Erati District restarted on February 25th, but new figures are not yet available.
- Approximately 61 per cent of IDPs are children.
- In Erati District, the majority of IDPs are staying with host families; one transit centre at a primary school has been established.
- 52 children have reported that they are separated from their carers.
- 125 schools are closed including 109 in Cabo Delgado and 16 schools in Memba District, Nampula Province. Of these, four schools in Chiure suffered damage in the recent attacks. One school in Erati is occupied by military forces.
- 10,900 people (2,500 households) are in seven displacement sites within Chiure (Maningane, Muajaja, Kuphe, Namitua, Nahavara, Meriha, and Namisir); an undetermined number of IDPs are staying with host communities.
- In addition to displacements in Chiure district, There are about 18,000 people from Chiure fled to four displacement sites in Metuge District.
- Cabo Delgado and Nampula had active cholera outbreaks prior to the most recent displacement; each province currently has six districts with outbreaks—including both Chiure and Erati Districts.