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@RefugeesMedia - 22/03/2022
Over 80 per cent of refugees and internally displaced people come from the most climate-vulnerable countries worldwide.
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@RefugeesMedia - 22/03/2022
Climate change is accelerating, and causing dangerous and widespread disruption to nature and people. Those with the least means to adapt are hardest hit, including refugees, IDPs and stateless.
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@RefugeesMedia - 22/03/2022
Every region of the world is experiencing climate hazards. Cyclones and other storms are becoming more frequent and severe, floods are stronger, droughts are intensifying, and wildfires are becoming more devastating.
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@RefugeesMedia - 22/03/2022
As Protection Cluster lead agency, UNHCR and partners are assessing the needs of displaced families – from shelter, food and healthcare to protection from sexual exploitation and abuse, mental health and psychosocial support services due to the terrifying experience of the storm
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@RefugeesMedia - 22/03/2022
Several basic infrastructure facilities were also damaged in the Maratane settlement – which hosts 9,300 refugees – such as the primary school, health centre, UNHCR warehouses, transit centre, and irrigation system
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@RefugeesMedia - 22/03/2022
UNHCR is mobilizing urgently needed shelter and other essential items from its stockpiles to assist 62,000 refugees, IDPs and host community members.
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@RefugeesMedia - 22/03/2022
A Burundian refugee and single mother of 3 told UNHCR her family had fled to a neighbour’s house in Maratane after theirs was completely destroyed. A young man said his crops had been devastated by the storm, leaving him fearful that we would be unable to support his family
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@RefugeesMedia - 22/03/2022
More than 380,000 people have been affected in Nampula province alone, according to local authorities, including tens of thousands of displaced people. They are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, including shelter materials to rebuild homes that collapsed during the storm
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@RefugeesMedia - 22/03/2022
Cyclone Gombe appears less severe than Idai and Kenneth, but brought fierce winds, intermittent rain and thunderstorms, damaging critical infrastructure and cutting power and communications in Nampula, nearby Maratane refugee settlement and sites for Cabo Delgado IDPs.
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@RefugeesMedia - 22/03/2022
Gombe is the strongest storm to strike Mozambique since Cyclones Idai and Kenneth wreaked havoc in the spring of 2019, killing hundreds and displacing some 2.2 million people.
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