Soaring global food prices are negatively impacting Mozambique, especially the poor who already struggle to survive. Extraordinarily high food prices in domestic markets are exacerbating the living conditions of millions of Mozambicans who are plagued by recurrent natural disasters and debilitating poverty.
For the second year in a row, floods swept over central Mozambique following torrential rains in southern Africa in December 2007 and January 2008.
UNICEF's Child-Friendly Schools (CFS) programme in Mozambique aims to improve the quality of education provided in primary schools through the implementation of a multi-sectoral minimum quality package.