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O País
The government announced yesterday that a total of 1,750 families would be evacuated from the vicinity of the Hulene rubbish dump, where 16 people lost their lives in a landslide in February.
About 80 million Euros would be needed for the operation, Council of Ministers spokeswoman Ana Comoana announced yesterday at the end of a cabinet meeting in Maputo.
The first phase, costing about 17 million Euros, would resettle about 400 families.
“These figures include access roads, social infrastructure, building homes and promoting income-generating projects,” she said.
The second phase will cover the transfer of 500 families, at an estimated budget of 23 million Euros, and the third and last phase, the last 800 families at a cost of 40 million Euros.
The Council of Ministers spokeswoman would not be drawn by journalists on any deadlines for the various phases. “In practice, the resettlement plan is in place and it will take some time until all targets are achieved,” she said.
A hundred and seventy-three families have already been transferred to temporary camps
in the wake of the garbage dump collapse.
Part of the capital’s largest dump, the height of a three-storey building, collapsed on February 19 following heavy rainfall, overwhelming several homes and killing 16 people, seven of them children, according to the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) in Maputo.
Ana Comoana said that the construction of a landfill to replace the Hulene dump would start later this year and come into operation in 2019.
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