The municipality of Nampula, in northern Mozambique, has revealed that it needs $18 million to build a landfill to reduce flooding in existing dumps. According to the municipality, funding is being mobilised from cooperation partners.
‘Our dumps are practically full. We are continuing to negotiate with partners to see if we can start construction of a landfill next year, because that is the only way we will be able to minimise the problem of waste proliferation,’ explained Luís Giquira, president of the Nampula municipal council.
According to him, the landfill will also boost the local economy by enabling waste collection and recycling, which will generate new sources of income for residents.
The city of Nampula, which has about 957,000 inhabitants according to data from the National Statistics Institute (INE), produces an average of more than 400 tonnes of rubbish per day.
Recently, the municipality announced that it had begun rehabilitation work on access roads, with a public expenditure of US$2.3 million. The project includes the rehabilitation of three kilometres of roads within the city, including Rua da Solidariedade, which connects National Road Number One (N1) to the military zone, and the old Rua das Flores, located in a prime area of the city.
