The humanitarian crisis in Mozambique will likely last for a long time after a sharp increase in militant attacks in the northern region of Cabo Delgado, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Director of Emergency Programs Manuel Fontaine said on Tuesday

Hundreds of people who fled the violence in the coastal Mozambican town of Palma have been offered temporary shelter at a transit center in Pemba to the north, the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) said

Emergency aid efforts have been expanded to help multiple thousands of people fleeing attacks by insurgents in northern Mozambique, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson Babar Baloch said at a press briefing on Tuesday

Mozambicans who survived an Islamist attack last month on the coastal town of Palma were hosted at a UN camp in Pemba further north, Sputnik has been told