Traffic resumes on Nangade-Mueda road | MediaFax

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Traffic resumes on Nangade-Mueda road | MediaFax

6:39 CAT | 12 Mar 2021

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Road connections between the towns of Mueda and Nangade, in the far north of Cabo Delgado province, were resumed on Sunday March 7, after Mozambique’s Defence and Security Forces (FDS) repulsed the terrorists who had erected barricades across the road, close to the village of Litingina.

Despite the resumption of vehicle traffic and the movement of people and goods, fear still lingers among transporters and commuters as reports continue to circulate of terrorist cells in several villages in the district.

The road has been closed for just over two weeks, isolating Nangade and putting it in the situation that the neighbouring district of Palma has been experiencing for some time.

The resumption of circulation encouraged some carriers to try to take advantage of demand by charging fares of up to 1,000 meticais for the Nangade-Mueda trip, but intervention by the Association of Natives and Friends of Nangade soon returned the cost of the journey to its normal 300 meticais.

Mobile phones interrupted and resumed too

In addition to the lack of road communication, Nangade district was also, for almost three days, deprived of the most-used telecommunications network in the region, Movitel. The networks of other mobile phone operators have, according to local reports, been down for some time. The collapse of the Movitel network was reportedly due to the antenna for the Litingina region running out of fuel, at a time when terrorist groups were circulating in the region.

The situation was resolved when the district permanent secretary, with an escort from the Defence and Security Forces, managed to refuel the antenna on the afternoon of Monday, March 8, thereby re-establishing mobile communication in the district.

Source: MediaFax