Mozambique: Power restored to 10,067 families after blackout in Malulo, Niassa

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Mozambique: Power restored to 10,067 families after blackout in Malulo, Niassa

5:02 CAT | 17 Jul 2024

FILE - EDM teams working to restore power supply to Melulu village headquarters, in Sanga district, Niassa province.[ File photo: TVM]

Eletricidade de Moçambique (EDM) has now restored the electricity supply to 10,067 families in Niassa province in the north of the country, who had been without power since Friday, a company source announced on Tuesday.

“The supply of electricity was re-established to more than 10,000 families who were without this service at 10:30 p.m. last Friday,” Heitor Matimele, director of EDM Service Area in Lichinga, Niassa, told the media.

According to Matimele, the electricity was restored on Monday afternoon, after work was carried out to replace the medium voltage transmission line poles that had been cut down using machetes in Malulo, the headquarters village of Sanga district, Niassa province

“After identifying the places where the wooden posts were vandalised by unidentified individuals, replacement work was carried out and ended around 3:00 p.m.. From that point on, we re-established the energy supply to those families,” Matimele highlighted.

Also yesterday, EDM announced the restoration of power to 166,412 people in Cabo Delgado, in the north of the country, after an outage caused by an anomaly in the high voltage network.

“We made the replacement (…) at around 2:00 a.m. and re-established supply. The entire circuit is powered, the entire province of Cabo Delgado has energy,” EDM director for the customer service in the area, Hermínio Assamo, said in Pemba, provincial capital of Cabo Delgado, cited on Tuesday by Radio Mozambique.

By the end of the year, EDM had in 2023 incurred losses of around 30 million meticais (€426,000) to infrastructure vandalism countrywide. The figure represents a reduction compared to the previous year (2022), when costs totalled around 41 million meticais (€584,000).