The Government of Japan today offered machinery for the safe management of solid waste at the Hulene dump, the largest in the country and where in February 2018, 16 people were buried to death.
“With the receipt of this equipment, we are now better positioned to ensure the operation of the Hulene dump in a safe and less costly way,” said the Mayor of Maputo City, Eneas Comiche, during a symbolic ceremony to receive the material.
The donation consists of four excavators and two backhoes, equipment that will allow the dump to save about 13 million meticais (almost 200 thousand euros) that were spent monthly to rent this type of machinery, according to the mayor of the Mozambican capital.
The support “will allow the resources spent so far to be directed to other interventions of equal importance,” added the mayor.
In the early morning of February 19, 2018, a part of the largest dump in the capital, with the height of a three-story building, collapsed due to heavy rain and fell on several precarious houses in the surrounding neighborhood.
Sixteen people died at the site, seven of whom were children.
Since the 2018 incident, municipal authorities have been receiving various waste management support, most notably initiatives supported by the Government of Japan itself, but the closure, budgeted at around $110 million according to data from that year, has no expected date yet.
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