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Sofala: Businessmen Positive about economic recovery after resumption of passenger and freight trains operations.

Following the resumed operation of passenger and freight trains on the Beira-Moatize railway line this Tuesday, businessmen in Sofala are optimistic about the quick economic recovery of the province.

Ricardo Cunhaque, president of the Business Council in Sofala, claims that the reintroduction of rail transportation will foster trade and regional economic growth.

According to Ricardo Cunhaque, when trains start running again, the cost of some essential goods may decrease in nearly every district that the railway line passes through.

Despite the negative economic effects, the official argued that the suspension of locomotive service in response to the Covid-19 pandemic was a wise decision.

Three children drown in Beira floods

Three children have drowned in floods caused by torrential rains in the central city of Beira.

The rain began on 26 February, coinciding with high tides, and swamped many low-lying areas. One of the child victims was a seven-month-old baby who drowned in his sleep.

His parents, also asleep, did not realise that the flood waters had invaded their house.

A four-year-old boy died while he was playing in the muddy water. He is believed to have fallen into a hole and drowned. The third victim, a 12-year-old boy, drowned in a ditch as he was trying to make his way to school.

Homes were inundated in outlying neighbourhoods such as Munhava, Macarungo, Manga, Chota, Muchatazina and Vaz.

Speaking to reporters, the mayor of Beira, Daviz Simango, recalled that Beira has special characteristics that make it prone to flooding. Part of the city is below sea level, and the water table is very high.

This made it crucial to maintain the city’s drainage system, and Simango reported that the new floodgates installed at the Chiveve River, inaugurated in January, performed well, as did the older floodgates in the Palmeiras neighbourhood.

Source AIM

Lynching in Beira

Residents of the Manga district distance themselves from the act

Some men look at body lynched in Beira City in Mozambique

A body was abandoned on one of the streets of the Manga neighborhood, in the city of Beira, and with signs of lynching.
Residents of the neighborhood are distancing themselves from any involvement and say the case may have occurred at another location over the course of the night.
The cases of lynching in the city of Beira are frequent.

Reinforced security measures for cars accessing Port of Beira in Sofala.

Reinforced security measures for cars accessing Port of Beira in Sofala.

The Command of the PRM the Provincial, has just established a police station near Rua Gruss Gomes as a measure to stem the tide of of thefts of trucks seeking access to the rail and port enclosure.

Vehicle robbery and theft of fuel and other types of diverse merchandise in trucks that at grounds of Beira port is a stark reality that even happens in broad daylight.

The subject is not only concern for carriers but also concerns the government.
Less than a half weeks, the Ministers of Interior and of Transport and Communications visitor Beira in order to see this issue resolved.

At this time, the solution seems to be in the view with the just been installed police station reinforceing the presence of the law enforcement agents in the neighborhood of Munhava in Kruss Gomes Street main section giving access to the port of Beira in perspective to contain the activities of criminals.

The police post set up this tent already started to operate and the police says they are already having results.

An individual 40 years of age fell into hands of the law and order agents when trying to rob one of the trucks. The indicted refutes the charge.
The port of of Beira receives daily an average of two thousand trucks coming from the countries of the hinterland and internally.

Rumors of demolition generate confusion in city of Beira

Dozens of residents living in Xota neighborhood,Beira rioted yesterday morning opposite the Beira Municipal Council building in protest against the alleged usurpation of their land.

Drumming and screaming the residents of the neighborhood of Chota wanted explanations from the Municipality on the urbanization project that is underway in that neighborhood.

It appears that there is bad communication or else the citizens did not understand the objectives of the local authority because they think that their spaces were allegedly sold to Ugandan citizens who were willing to finance a project to build two thousand social housing facillities.

"They say they want to build many homes and who want to live in that house will have to pay a rent for 25 years.