UNHCR: Nearly 100,000 displaced in recent weeks as violence spreads across northern Mozambique

December 3, 2025

UNHCR

GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is gravely concerned as intensifying attacks on villages and the rapid spillover of the conflict into previously safe districts force tens of thousands of people to flee across northern Mozambique, with close to 100,000 displaced in the past fortnight alone. As needs rise at unprecedented speed, the capacity of humanitarian and government actors is not keeping pace, and collective efforts remain insufficient to meet the scale of protection and assistance required on the ground

Newly displaced families gather in the open in Erati district, in northern Mozambique's Nampula Province, after fleeing recent violence.

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