Mozambique: ANAC plans to create a conservation area in Palma
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The first phase of the coastal protection works in the Mozambican city of Beira will start within a month, with one million Euros already made available by the German Development Bank (KFW).
“We already have a total of one million Euros available from the KFW bank,” said Albano Carige, president of the Beira Municipal Council. “We are now waiting for the approval [of the plan] by the Municipal Assembly, due in the first week of August, to then start work.”
The intervention will consist of the construction of a reinforced concrete wall and the rehabilitation of four kilometres of road on Avenida da Marginal, destroyed by Cyclone Idai in 2019.
The current tar road surface will be replaced with concrete, he added.
Albano Carige said that, in order to implement the project, geophysical studies were carried out in preparation for building dikes to hold back the sea water.
The coastal protection construction work will take six months.
The second phase of the project will start in the first half of 2023, with US$60 million (€58.7 million euros) already available – US$30 million from the Government of the Netherlands, US$15 million from the World Bank and an equal amount from the German Development Bank.
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