Mozambique: Contingency Plan Presented

Maputo — The Mozambican government's Disaster Management Coordinating Council on Friday presented its contingency plan for the 2002/03 agricultural year, which envisages expenditure of up to 46 million US dollars for activities intended to minimise the effects of natural disasters.

Addressing representatives of the donor community and of civil society, the director of the country's relief agency, the National Disasters Management Institute (INGC), Silvano Langa, stressed that the main problem facing the country remains drought over much of central and southern Mozambique.

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