Nyusi returns to Cabo Delgado

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Nyusi returns to Cabo Delgado

8:10 CAT | 25 Oct 2018

Picture: Presidente Filipe Nyusi / Facebook

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi said on Wednesday that the second phase of paving the road from Mueda to Negomano in the northern province of Cabo Delgado will begin before the first phase is complete.

Nyusi was speaking shortly after his arrival in the provincial capital, Pemba, for his second visit to the province this month. The main purpose of his visit this time is the formal launch of the 2018/19 agricultural campaign.

On 2 October Nyusi laid the first stone for the rehabilitation and paving of the 165 kilometre road from Mueda to Negomano. The paving is financed by the African Development Bank (ADB) and will cost 40.6 million US dollars.

The work will be undertaken in two phases. The first is tarring the road from Negomano, on the Tanzanian border, to Roma, a distance of 70 kilometres. The second phase will run from Roma to Mueda.

The purpose of this project is to ensure a good, tarred road between Tanzania and Mozambique. The border between the two countries is the Rovuma River, and in 2010 the “Unity Bridge” across the river was inaugurated by the Mozambican and Tanzanian presidents of the time, Armando Guebuza and Jakaya Kikwete.

The bridge has remained underused, largely because of the lack of good road connections on the Mozambican side.

Nyusi told the 2 October ceremony that the road will be the final piece in the country’s main north-south highway, running from the Rovuma river to Ponta de Ouro, on the border with the South African province of Kwazulu-Natal.

Nyusi told the crowd that greeted him at Pemba airport that the launch of the agricultural campaign will bring together agricultural producers and the population in general. He stressed the need for positive agricultural results in order to guarantee food security and generate income for producers.

Nyusi added that the agricultural potential of Cabo Delgado plus the favourable long range weather forecast meant that good harvests could be expected in 2019.

He thanked the Cabo Delgado public for the orderly and peaceful way in which the municipal elections were conducted in the province on 10 October. “Let’s continue like this, because only in this way will we dignify the gains we have been making since our independence in 1975”. Nyusi said.

Source: AIM