Maputo — The Mozambican Minister of Public Works, Joao Machatine, on Friday announced that the government will not tolerate the sexual abuse of young girls by the employees of contractors working on road projects in Zambezia and Nampula provinces.
The government would approach these crimes with "an iron fist", he warned, at a meeting with the Ministry's road construction staff and contractors working on the Rural Roads Project. This was launched in 2018 to improve accessibility in the remote areas of the two provinces, and is budgeted at 260 million US dollars, funded by the World Bank and the government,
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