Mozambique seeks Japanese support to set up weather radars

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Mozambique seeks Japanese support to set up weather radars

3:02 CAT | 22 Nov 2022

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The Mozambican Minister of Transport and Communications said on Tuesday that Mozambique was counting on Japan’s help to install meteorological radar, as part of institutional capacity building against “extreme events”.

“Mozambique is extensive, and we need meteorological radar in the north, in Nampula province, and in the south, in the city of Xai-Xai, and there we would like to count on your collaboration,” Minister Magala said.

Magala was speaking in Tokyo, during a meeting with the State Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan.

According to a statement issued by the Mozambican Ministry of Transport and Communications, the weather forecasting equipment to be set up in the north and south of the country will join the device recently installed in the city of Beira, in the centre of the country.

“Given its vulnerability to natural disasters,” the minister continued, Mozambique “needs to equip itself with better early warning and anticipatory capacity against extreme events”.

Minister Magala also expressed Mozambique’s willingness to cooperate with Japan in modernising the Mozambican airport sector.

He specifically pointed out the need for the recovery and modernization of Beira International Airport, after the devastation that the infrastructure suffered from Cyclone Idai in 2019.

Source: Lusa