Mozambique: $50 million secured for Muera dam project in Cabo Delgado, tender

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Mozambique: $50 million secured for Muera dam project in Cabo Delgado, tender

12:32 CAT | 20 Aug 2024

Image: Presidente Filipe Nyusi / Facebook

The Mozambican president announced on Monday that the government has already mobilised US$50 million to finance the construction of a dam on the Muera River, in Cabo Delgado province, in the north of the country.

‘The government has mobilised from its development and cooperation partners a total of US$50 million [€45.3 million] for the construction of the Muera dam on the Macondes Plateau [Mueda district],’ said Filipe Nyusi at the inauguration of the Pemba water supply system in Cabo Delgado province.

According to the President, the Muera dam aims to ensure the supply of water to the districts of Muidumbe, Mueda and Nangade, all in Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, a ‘problem that can’t be solved in a week, a month or a year’.

‘But we’re already going to start, because this funding already exists. Just yesterday [Sunday], in conversation with the Minister for Public Works, Water Resources and Housing, I learnt that the bank financing this project has said ‘go ahead’. Soon the tender has to be launched, there is money and works will have to start on building the dam,’ added the head of state.

Mozambique’s Minister for Housing, Public Works and Water Resources, Carlos Mesquita, said on 31 August 2023 that the government needs around US$120 million to build the dam on the Muera River. ‘The dam is valued at around US$50 million, but that estimate [of US$120 million] includes a distribution system and expansion of the network. All of this comes to around US$120 million,” Carlos Mesquita said at the time.

The communities in the districts that will benefit from the water from the dam on the Muera River are currently being ravaged by an insurgency that began in 2017, with attacks claimed by movements associated with the extremist group Islamic State.

Source: Lusa