Mozambique issues ID documents to over 500,000 displaced people in northern region

MAPUTO, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Mozambique authorities have begun to issue identification cards to more than 500,000 internally displaced people in the northern region of the country, national radio station RM reported on Wednesday.

Technicians from the country's National Civil Identification Service have already begun working in the accommodation centers in the districts of Metugi and Pemba, the northern province of Cabo Delgado, the report quoted the institution's director Alberto Sumbana as saying.