Mozambique: Floods threaten National Highway Number 1

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Mozambique: Floods threaten National Highway Number 1

12:40 CAT | 14 Feb 2023

Photo: Notícias

Transit on the section of National Highway Number One (EN1) between 3 de Fevereiro and the detour to Xinavane in Maputo province is threatened by rising water levels in the Incomáti river basin.

This section was submerged for several hours yesterday morning, the situation beginning to normalize by the end of the day. However, the risk of passage being severed remained, at the close of this Noticias edition, due to the opening of the floodgates of the Corumana dam.

The threat led Minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources, Carlos Mesquita, to visit the area to assess possible scenarios.

Minister Mesquita interacted with teams on the ground and checked the main crossing points, in the end advancing that the government was ready to provide assistance if the road was cut.

Mesquita said that the roads sector would mobilize material and human resources to assure the uninterrupted flow of goods on the highway, which is of great economic and social importance in national life.

“We have already mobilized a contractor who is in line with the National Road Administration to intervene in any eventuality in this rainy season,” he said.

The minister added that the government would continue to manage the main dams in the country in such a way as to minimise critical situations.

Source: Notícias