Russia hands over materials to displaced children in Cabo Delgado

The Council of the Russian Federation (the Senate) has passed various materials through the Parliament of Mozambique to support the population affected by terrorism in Cabo Delgado, especially children.

“Of the proposals, we are particularly fond of those aimed at children” and our fellow citizens in general, affected by terrorism,” said the first vice-president of the Parliament of Mozambique, Elder Injoho, who was quoted on Wednesday by the News Agency. Mozambique (AIM).

The support, consisting of school and sports materials in unspecified quantities, will be channeled through the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Action to children from communities displaced by incursions by armed rebels who have been terrorizing the province of Cabo Delgado since 2017. , in the north of the African country.

According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), there are about 800,000 internally displaced people as a result of the conflict, and about 4,000 people have died, according to the ACLED Conflict Register project.

The donation was the result of a commitment made by Federation Council President Valentina Matviyenko, who visited Mozambique on 30 and 31 May this year.

Then Valentina Matvienko, the third figure in the Russian state, classified Mozambique as a “reliable partner”, recalling Russia’s support “at all stages” that the African country has gone through.

During the visit, Valentin Matvienko and Esperanza Bias, President of the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique, signed an agreement aimed at strengthening cooperation between the two parliaments, with a focus on the exchange of experience and the exchange of information.

Matvienko is one of the Russian figures subject to sanctions by the United States of America and the European Union (frozen assets and no visas) since 2014 due to his role in Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea.

Mozambique was among the countries that abstained from voting on two United Nations (UN) General Assembly resolutions: one condemned Russia for the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine due to the war, and another removed Moscow from the Human Rights Council.

The Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo, the party in power since independence) was an ally of Moscow during the former Soviet Union, receiving military support during the fight against Portuguese colonialism and economic assistance after independence in 1975.