Mozambique: Niassa Lion Project resumes activities in the Niassa Special Reserve
Watch: Mozambican government ponders construction of new city
11:01 CAT | 23 Nov 2018
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Mozambique’s government on Wednesday said that it was considering the construction of a new city to transfer all communities residing in coal exploration areas in the district of Moatize, in the central part of the country.
“In the future, perhaps a distant one, it will be necessary to build a new city where people currently residing in areas close to coal mines can live,” Minister of Land, Environment and Rural Development Celso Correia said in the Assembly of the Republic on Wednesday.
Minister Correia pointed out that several studies indicated that populations are still exposed to the risks of pollution because they have not been relocated to areas distant enough from the risk.
“Our concern is that human interest be safeguarded in the resettlement,” he said.
The minister said the process of withdrawing populations from areas concessioned to social and economic development projects was complex, and stressed the need to take the interests of communities into account.
Several companies are involved in the exploration and exploitation of coal reserves in Moatize district.
Source: Lusa / TVM
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