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Date sent: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:04:51 +0100
From: lori@irn.org (Lori Pottinger)
Subject: Cahora Bassa power extends/LS
To: irn-safrica@igc.org
Cahora Bassa Power To Reach Northern Mozambique
April 16, 1999
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Mozambique's northern-most
provinces of Niassa
and Cabo Delgado will have power supply from the Cahora Bassa
dam on the
Zambezi in the near future, the daily paper 'Noticias' has reported.
Work to extend the Cahora Bassa grid to the areas will be funded
by Norway
and Sweden who are currently negotiating with the Mozambican
government on
the project, the paper said Thursday.
It quoted Niassa governor Aires Aly as saying that topographic work will
start within two months to prepare the erection of new transmission lines.
Aly said he was certain that the new lines will enhance the development of
the northern region.
Aly met in Nampula with governors of Nampula province, Rosario Mualeia,
and Cabo Delgado's Jose Pacheco, on Monday to discuss the sustainability
of development programmes in the region.
"We believe that with the electrification of Niassa and Cabo Delgado,
through the center-north power line from Cahora Bassa, many things will
change in the scope of regional development," Aly said.
The meeting also touched on issues related to the Nacala corridor, the
railway line from Nacala port to Malawi, which runs through Nampula and
Niassa provinces, saying it was a backbone of the region's development.
Aly said the meeting also discussed the possibilities of creating a Mtwara
corridor, linking Mozambique to the port of Mtwara in southern Tanzania,
through Niassa.
"We believe that this corridor will complement the Nacala development
corridor," he said.
The three governors noted the problem of illegal immigrants who enter
northern Mozambique from neighbouring Malawi and Tanzania.
Joint cooperation commissions of the concerned countries have held various
meetings, both in Malawi and in Tanzania, to try and find a solution to
the problem.
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