Mozambique: Corruption Worsens Impact of Disasters

Maputo — Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario on Friday recognized that some of the country's social and economic infrastructures do not resist natural disasters because the contractors who won the building contracts did so through schemes of corruption.

“We want to work so that state-owned buildings do not continually have to be rebuilt, as happens now”, he said, addressing the Disaster Management Technical Council (CTGC) in the northern province of Niassa, on the second day of a working visit to that province.

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