Mozambique/Cyclones: World Bank, government disburse €119M for roadworks in rural areas

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Mozambique/Cyclones: World Bank, government disburse €119M for roadworks in rural areas

6:10 CAT | 29 Nov 2019

File photo: Lusa

The World Bank and Mozambique’s government will disburse an additional $132 million (€119 million) for road construction in rural areas of Mozambique, with emphasis on points affected by cyclones Idai and Kenneth.

This is the integrated rural road development project, which will give priority to rehabilitation in the provinces of Zambezia, Sofala, Manica, Tete, in the centre, and Nampula and Cabo Delgado, in the north of the country, the deputy minister of Public Works and Housing said in Nampula during the opening of a steering committee that discussed the rehabilitation projects.

The integrated rural road development project was launched last year, four months before Cyclone Idai, with a budget of US$185 million (€168 million), disbursed by the government itself and the World Bank, and covered 10 districts in the provinces of Nampula and Zambezia.

In this second phase, the project is extended to other provinces, especially those that have suffered from the impact of cyclones in central and northern Mozambique.

“Following the cyclones, with the first funding, it was possible to develop actions for immediate reconstruction of the destroyed roads,” said the vice minister of Public Works and Housing, Vítor Taucale, quoted by the television channel STV.

Cyclone Idai, which hit central Mozambique in March, destroyed infrastructure and caused 604 deaths, affecting about 1.5 million people in central Mozambique, while Cyclone Kenneth, which hit the north in April, killed 45 people and affected 250,000.

Source: Lusa