The European Commission will provide an initial humanitarian aid allocation of €41 million for Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean in 2025 – an area facing simultaneously natural hazards and conflict.
Mozambique will receive €17 million. Part of the funding will support the country’s efforts to respond to the consequences of tropical cyclones Chido, Dikeledi, and Jude, which struck the country in December 2024, January, and March 2025. In addition to this emergency funding, the EU has also transported, in response to tropical cyclone Chido, 60 tonnes of assistance (shelter, household items, water, and sanitation supplies) from the EU’s warehouse in Nairobi.
A further €7 million will be provided to Madagascar, to facilitate access to food, emergency education, and nutritional services amongst others. €16 million will be used for regional and multi-country programs, to help children remain in school, strengthen protection from gender-based violence, and boost the response to epidemics.
The EU will also provide €1 million to support the response to the ongoing cholera outbreak in Angola.
Commissioner for Preparedness, Crisis Management and Equality, Hadja Lahbib, stressed: “In the Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean region, climate shocks and natural hazards – tropical cyclones, droughts, and unpredictable rainfall – are claiming lives, destroying livelihoods, leaving families homeless, and leading to escalating food insecurity. This is in addition to the suffering caused by armed conflict. Only in Mozambique, some 1.3 million have been forced to flee their homes since the conflict in Cabo Delgado broke out in 2017 and 4.9 million are food insecure. The funding announced today will provide life-saving aid to households and strengthen disaster preparedness in the region. ”
