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Mozambican government creates sustainable development fund
1:11 CAT | 24 Feb 2016
Lusa ( File) From top to bottom and left to right: Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosário; minister of Youth and Sports Alberto Nkutumula; former deputy minister of Finance and current president of Tax Authority, Amélia Nakhare; President Filipe Nyusi; minister of Land, Environment and Rural Delopment, Celso Correia; minister of Economy and Finance Adriano Maleiane; minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources, Carlos Bonete Martinho.
The government has approved the creation of the National Sustainable Development Fund (FNDS), to promote and finance programs and projects that support “sustainable, harmonious and inclusive” growth.
The FNDS replaces the Fund for the Environment (FUNAB), which has been wound up, Mozambique news agency AIM reports.
Minister for Land, the Environment and Rural Development Celso Korea explained that the new fund is dedicated to encouraging and funding development projects, particularly in rural areas.
“It is a fund with a different nature – with a range to meet the challenges and inequalities the country faces,” the minister said. The fund will be operational three months.
Asked to comment on the indiscriminate slaughter of animals in the Gorongosa National Park by armed Renamo (Mozambique National Resistance) men, Korea said he regretted the unfortunate incidents, since Gorongosa, he said, was “the people’s heritage”.
“We condemn this action and hope to have adequate answers as soon as possible,” the minister said, pointing out that in 2014, Gorongosa was one of the most visited destinations in Mozambique, and that a reversal of this welcome trend must at all costs be avoided.
Source: Lusa
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