At least 1.2 million people received humanitarian assistance in Mozambique during 2025 through a United Nations fund established to respond to the impacts of extreme weather events, armed conflict and other emergencies.
According to the annual report of the Mozambique Humanitarian Fund, around €1.9 million was channelled into assistance operations across several parts of the country.
The report indicates that approximately 1.3 million people needed humanitarian support in 2025, in a context marked by the insurgency in Cabo Delgado, cyclones, cholera outbreaks and other vulnerabilities.
Operations financed by the fund included multisectoral assistance in the districts of Macomia and Quissanga, in Cabo Delgado, as well as rapid-response mechanisms for cyclones, floods and disease outbreaks in different parts of the country.
The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Mozambique, Catherine Sozi, highlighted the role of national and local organisations in delivering assistance to affected communities.
According to the report, 96% of the US$2.3 million allocated by the fund in 2025 was channelled directly to national and local non-governmental organisations.
The United Nations says this approach allows assistance to reach communities more quickly and more effectively, particularly in hard-to-access areas.
The humanitarian situation remained particularly critical in northern Mozambique, where insecurity continued to cause displacement and create new needs for assistance.
In Cabo Delgado, escalating violence affected more than 134,000 people during the year, while around 300 people are reported to have been abducted since January 2025 by non-state armed groups.
In addition to the conflict, cyclones Chido, Dikeledi and Jude caused significant damage to infrastructure, homes and livelihoods between December 2024 and March 2025.
The Mozambique Humanitarian Fund is part of a regional humanitarian mechanism for Eastern and Southern Africa and received contributions in 2025 from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway and Estonia.
Together, the four countries contributed around US$3.3 million to the regional mechanism.
Since 2017, Cabo Delgado Province has faced an armed insurgency that has killed thousands of people and displaced more than one million.
At the same time, Mozambique remains one of the countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, regularly facing cyclones, floods and other extreme weather events.
According to the National Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction, the latest rainy season caused 311 deaths and affected around 1.07 million people across different parts of the country.
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