Maputo — Nampula (Mozambique), 2 Mar (AIM) - Taking advantage of the presence of hundreds of officials, diplomats and potential investors, who were attending the investors' conference for the Nacala Corridor on Thursday and Friday, the authorities in the northern Mozambican province of Nampula have unveiled a strategic plan for the development of the province over the next five years. The plan centres on efforts to reduce poverty through increasing production "on a sustainable basis". The provincial government regards the plan as an innovation that will create new opportunities and challenges.
The strategic plan arises simultaneously with the attempts to develop the Nacala Corridor, the line of rail from the port of Nacala to landlocked Malawi, and certain large-scale projects, the best-known of which is the mining of titanium-bearing mineral sands in Moma district.
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