Mozambique: Cabinet allots €120M for post-cyclone relief, rebuilding in north

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Mozambique: Cabinet allots €120M for post-cyclone relief, rebuilding in north

6:44 CAT | 05 Feb 2025

FILE - For illustration purposes only. [File photo: Lusa]

Mozambique’s government on Tuesday announced the allocation of €120 million for humanitarian assistance and the rehabilitation of public infrastructure destroyed by Cyclone Chido and Cyclone Dikeledi in the north of the country.

“The government has funding mechanisms available to deal with the damage caused, having analysed and approved at this session the response plan that amounts to eight billion meticais [around €120 million], which will form the basis for assistance interventions and the rehabilitation of destroyed public infrastructure,” said the spokesman for the cabinet, Inocêncio Impissa, after a meeting of that body in Maputo.

Cyclones Chido and Dikeledi hit northern Mozambique in December and January, with the greatest impact on the provinces of Cabo Delgado and Nampula, causing deaths and material damage with the destruction of public and private infrastructure.

Impissa also said that in the first phase the government would prioritise “immediate responses” to the needs of the affected provinces, promising to mobilise resources for “medium and long-term interventions.”

On 13 January, Dikeledi – a severe tropical cyclone – made landfall in Mozambique, causing at least 11 deaths and affecting another 250,000 people, including the destruction of almost 20,000 homes, according to the latest official assessment by the authorities.

Cyclone Chido, which hit Mozambique on 14 December, killed at least 120 people and affected 450,000 others.

Mozambique is considered one of the countries most severely affected by climate change in the world, facing cyclical floods and tropical cyclones during the rainy season, which runs from October to April.

Source: Lusa