Mozambique: Repair work on main north-south road to begin in 2023 – government

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Mozambique: Repair work on main north-south road to begin in 2023 – government

3:44 CAT | 30 Aug 2022

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Rehabilitation work on National Road No. 1 (EN1), the main road in Mozambique, will begin in the second half of next year, the Minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources has said.

“The first question was really to get the funding, it is already guaranteed, at least part of it. By 2023, in the second half of the year, work will begin,” Carlos Mesquita told the media on the sidelines of the 6th Engineering Congress being held in Maputo.

EN1, the only road linking the south, centre and north of Mozambique, has been the scene of serious road accidents, with several deaths and almost always involving public transport, a problem associated with excessive speed, according to the authorities, who also admit that the road is in poor condition at several points..

In April, the Mozambican government announced its intention to rehabilitate the EN1 and, according to calculations made at the time by the Ministry for Public Works, Housing and Water Resources, the work was budgeted at US$750 million (748 million euros at the current exchange rate).

The rehabilitation, which includes the construction of a total of 13 toll booths, will cover 1,300 kilometres of the 2,477 kilometre-length of the road.

The executive already has half of the fund coming from the World Bank, which last week approved US$400 million (399 million euros) for the Mozambican Safe Roads project, which includes support for the rehabilitation of the EN1.

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“We will comply with all the normal procedures that the World Bank has, we will adjust and fine-tune the studies we already have in order to develop the project,” concluded the Minister.

Source: Lusa