Maputo, 14 Feb (AIM) – The French oil and gas company, Total Energies, which heads the Mozambique LNG Project, located in Palma district, in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, on Friday handed over about 95 tons of basic foodstuffs and 100,000 kits of hygiene products as part of its support aimed at mitigating the impact of the floods that have hit parts of southern and central Mozambique.
The LNG project, which is budgeted at about 20 billion dollars, was recently relaunched after it was forced to halt operations in 2021 following a major terrorist attack against Palma town.
The donation, budgeted at over 32 million meticais (about 500,000 US dollars at the current exchange rate), is part of the overall package of 200 million meticais announced by TotalEnergies’ CEO, Patrick Pouyanné.
According to Maxime Rabilloud, TotalEnergies’ representative in Mozambique, the support is aimed at responding to the most urgent needs of the affected households, with further actions planned, including the provision of agricultural inputs, rehabilitation of social infrastructures in coordination with the government.
“The impact of the floods has been very severe. We therefore feel it is our responsibility to continue to join forces with the government to help alleviate the suffering of the people, families, and communities directly affected”, he said.
For her turn, Rita Almeida, director of Planning and Cooperation at the country’s relief agency, the National Disaster Risk Management Institute (INGD), the support will be extremely important for the actions that are being carried out on the ground.
“We must not only continue to support those in the accommodation centers, but also those who have to rebuild their lives in the places where they are currently going”, she said.
The floods destroyed more than 450,000 hectares of agricultural land and caused the death of around 430,000 animals in the provinces of Gaza, Maputo and part of Sofala. The heavy rains also caused 22 deaths, nine missing persons and 45 injuries, affecting more than 700,000 people and flooding around 165,000 homes. The rainy and cyclonic season is expected to end in April, after beginning in October 2025.
(AIM)
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