Maputo, 11 Jul (AIM) – Valige Taubo, governor of the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, on Thursday revealed that the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has disbursed over 50 million dollars for reconstruction of infrastructures destroyed by the islamist terrorists that have been raiding several districts of the province since 2017.
According to Taubo – who was speaking on Thursday during the ceremony in which the UNDP was handing over ten vehicles and 15 tricycles to the local government, as part of a donation by the Japanese government – the amount was used for the reconstruction of over 30 infrastructures.
The infrastructures in question were rebuilt in the districts of Palma, Mocímboa da Praia, Quissanga, Macomia, Muidumbe and Nangade.
“These infrastructures will be handed over to the respective district governments in the coming days. To date, UNDP has invested more than 50 million dollars to support the implementation of the Cabo Delgado Reconstruction Programme (PRCD) through the rehabilitation and equipping of over 30 public infrastructures”, he said.
For her part, Catherine Sozi, the UNDP coordinator in Mozambique, said that the recently donated vehicles “will facilitate the work of teams on the ground, especially in the most remote areas.”
She explained that the vehicles would strengthen the mobility of state institutions and monitor reconstruction work in areas previously affected by terrorist attacks.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), last May Islamist terrorism affected over 134,000 people in Cabo Delgado. Data made public by Africa Centre for Strategic Studies (ACSS), an academic institution of the US Department of Defence, in 2024 alone Islamist extremist groups killed at least 349 people in northern Mozambique, an increase of 36 per cent over the previous year.
(AIM)
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