The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, will travel on Wednesday to Cabo Delgado, north of the country, to launch an emergency project budgeted at $ 100 million to support the region affected by terrorist attacks, announced the government.
The head of state will preside in Pemba, provincial capital, the signing ceremony of the agreement between the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Mader) and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).
A governmental source explained to Lusa that the funding was obtained through a World Bank donation to the Northern Integrated Development Agency (ADIN), under Mader?s supervision, and the UNOPS? responsibility was the implementation.
The funds will serve to build health units, schools, among other infrastructure and services in a province affected by a serious humanitarian crisis.
“The implementation of the emergency project by UNOPS aims to put the experience and knowledge of this United Nations organization at the disposal of the Government of Mozambique,” said a statement from the Presidency of the Republic.
Filipe Nyusi’s visit to Pemba comes about a month after the attack on the town of Palma (March 24), which caused a still undetermined number of deaths and wounded of various nationalities and 28,600 internally displaced persons, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
The Mozambican authorities regained control of the town, but the attack led the oil company Total to abandon indefinitely the gas project in that district with production planned to start in 2024 and on which many of Mozambique’s economic growth expectations for the next decade are anchored.