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Mozambique: Funds available to complete paving of Nampula-Niassa road | AIM
10:33 CAT | 22 Nov 2022
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The Mozambican government has pledged that 35 million dollars are available to complete the paving of National Highway 13 (N13), linking the northern provinces of Nampula and Niassa.
The Deputy Minister of Public Works, Cecilia Chamutota, during a visit to Lurio locality, in Nampula, confirmed on Friday to reporters that the money is now available. “We have funding of 35 million dollars guaranteed from the European Union, via the African Development Bank”, she said, “to cover the paving of the final 35 kilometres of the road”.
The government, Chamutota added, is now hiring a consultant who will revise the road project. The N13 runs for over 880 kilometres from the port of Nacala to the Niassa provincial capital, Lichinga. Just 35 kilometres are still unpaved – 15 kilometres in Malema district, in Nampula, and 20 kilometres in Cuamba municipality, in Niassa.
The consultant, Chamutota said, will need four months to update the road construction project, following which a contractor will be hired who will pave the road.
Chamutota said concluding the N13 is one of the government’s priorities given its strategic importance in the movement of people and goods in the north of the country. “This road is very important because it links the port of Nacala to Malawi and even to Zambia”, she said.
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Source: AIM
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