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President Nyusi visits Inhambane
9:42 CAT | 31 Mar 2017
A Bola (File photo) / President Filipe Nyusi
President Nyusi is on a working visit to the province of Inhambane from today until Saturday, during which he will inaugurate the new Sentidos Beach Resort tourist complex in Praia da Barra and visit Inhambane neighbourhoods where infrastructure was destroyed by Cyclone Dineo.
Tropical cyclone Dineo totally destroyed 33,712 houses and damaged another 71,526. It also destroyed 1,692 classrooms and 72 toilets, killed seven and injured 96, 15 seriously.
62,382 hectares of crops, including maize, beans, rice, peanuts, manioc, sweet potatoes, manioc and various horticultural crops were destroyed in 30 districts of Manica, Sofala, Inhambane, Gaza and Maputo.
During the trip, President Nyusi is accompanied by the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Silva Dunduro; Deputy Minister of State Administration and Public Service, Roque Silva; Director General of the National Institute of Disaster Management, Osvaldo Machatine and staff of the presidency and other state institutions.
Source: Folha de Maputo
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