Southern Africa: Nyusi Inaugurates Rebuilt Beira-Zimbabwe Highway

Maputo — Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday inaugurated the rebuilt highway from the central port of Beira to the Zimbabwean border, a distance of 287 kilometres.

Budgeted at 410 million US dollars, financed by the Exim Bank of China and by the Mozambican government, the work on the road began in April 2015, and should have finished on 31 March 2018. But lack of funds to resettle households and move shops in the area of Inchope, where the road intersects with the main north-south highway (EN1), led to a delay of over a year.

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