AfDB Approve USD74.9m for Mozambique-Tanzania Road Connection
The African Development Bank (AfDB)
recently approved USD71.8m grant and USD3.1m loan to the Government of
Mozambique to improve road connectivity with Tanzania.
The road segment Mueda – Negomano in
Northern Mozambique represents a missing link on the transport corridor between
Mozambique and Tanzania. AfDB will finance the paving of the road for phase I,
which includes the construction of an asphalted 70km road section which starts
at Negomano, located adjacent to the Ruvuma River, the natural frontier with
Tanzania.
The section ends in the locality of
Roma.
The improvement of the road will
reduce from three to one hour the time to travel between the two localities.
That first phase will be complemented by a second one, planned to start in
2019, which will connect Roma to Mueda and includes the construction of a one
stop border post.
“The project is key for traders and road
users, who transport goods between Tanzania and Mozambique.
Following the completion, they will benefit
from more direct and shorter journeys to the ports of Pemba in Mozambique and
Mtwara in Tanzania, effectively enhancing regional trade” said AfDB Chief
Transport Engineer, Aymen Osmannn Wednesday 7 Ali. The new road will extend the
paved road recently built in the Tanzanian side, financed by an AfDB project
approved in 2012.
The project included the upgrading
of the Dodoma-Babati road (188km) in central Tanzania and the
Tunduru-Mangaka-Mtambaswala road (204km)in southern Tanzania, near the border
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