Mozambique: Donors Not Releasing Promised Cyclone Aid

"We are in a situation in which bombastic and beautiful announcements were made, but the aid promised has not arrived," President Filipe Nyusi said in Portugal on 4 July. "Much of the announced aid has not arrived." He stressed that many people lost houses and need cement, roofing sheets and other building materials.(O Pais Economico, 5 July) Families need to rebuild and plant a crop before the rains start in November. Nyusi also noted that Mozambique does not have money to rebuild roads and bridges washed out in the floods, some of which had been built in the colonial era.

In a statement on 11 July, (Carta de Mocambique) Public Works Minister Joao Machatine said donors are only now carrying out an inventory. A reconstruction plan will be presented to the Council of Ministers on 13 August, which suggests donor funds will not be available until September, when the election campaign has started. So it does not look hopeful for donor aid to reach affected people before the rains start.

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