Mozambique: Prime Minister Sums Up in Floods Debate

Maputo — Mozambican Prime Minister Alberto Vaquina on Friday declared that the main reason Mozambicans are so vulnerable to national disasters is poverty.

Winding up a debate on the floods crisis of January and February in the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, Vaquina insisted that, in order to deal with disasters, poverty reduction must remain a government priority.

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