More than 57,000 people returning to Mocimboa da Praia, in the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, face water shortages due to vandalism of pipes during terrorist attacks, a local government source told Lusa this Thursday.
“Before leaving [em fuga dos ataques]The municipality had a population of 62,390 thousand people and water was already available to everyone “24 hours a day,” but the terrorists “destroyed bombs, destroyed the home network, destroyed the fountains,” said Vicente Alfandega, a municipal spokesman.
The network “was almost new before the invasion”, there is a “gradual restoration”, and since the returning 57,475 thousand inhabitants are fewer than those that existed before, “the organization of small systems could solve the situation,” the same source added.
A spokesman for the Mocimboa da Praia City Council assured that to change the situation, the City Council will mobilize cooperation partners to finance the restoration, including the construction of 25 fountains in five new expanding areas.
“What the municipality is doing is looking for partners to restore what was damaged by terrorists, and we have received the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross because at the moment it is in an obsolete state,” he concluded.
Mocimboa da Praia became the first stage of an armed uprising on October 5, 2017 in northern Mozambique, in the province of Cabo Delgado, with the extremist group Islamic State claiming responsibility for some attacks.
The insurgency has led to a military response since July 2021, supported by Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), liberating areas close to gas exploration projects, but new waves of attacks have emerged in the south of the region and in a neighboring province. from Nampula.
The conflict has already displaced one million people, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and nearly 4,000 people have died, according to the ACLED Conflict Recording Project.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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