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Mozambique: More than 500 km of road damaged by tires burned during demonstrations in Maputo province
10:30 CAT | 07 Mar 2025
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More than five hundred kilometres of roads in Maputo province have been damaged by tires being burned on them during demonstrations associated with the 9 October elections last year.
According to the Maputo delegate of the National Roads Administration (ANE), Dado Novelo, the damage caused to the asphalt by burning tires gradually becomes a pothole that grows larger over time and due to rain.
“What is happening is that the transporters themselves are building the barricades and are not letting us do the work, claiming that the road itself is in poor condition. So, what I would ask is that they let us work in a way that we could minimize this issue of transitability and the road itself, for example, on this Matola Gare/Machava Socimol stretch,” Novelo said.
“The other contribution, which would not only be for transporters but for all road users, because we have unfortunately been witnessing the burning of tires, and this is a critical situation because we are talking about a paved road and if we are going to burn tires on top of this paved road, this is a potential hole. After it was burned, and it rains, we ourselves will complain about the holes that appear in the roads.”
Source: RM
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