At disaster forum, storm-hit Mozambique says will seek help to build back better

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Its redevelopment plans include resettling families away from risky areas and rebuilding power grids, water supplies and other critical infrastructure in a more robust way, Macie said.

Vice-minister Macie said the Mozambican government was still assessing the extent of the"loss and damage" caused by the two powerful storms that hit the country's central and northern coastal areas.

People living in coastal cities like Beira were particularly vulnerable to the storms as a result of Mozambique's 16-year civil war, he noted. Now the government wants storm-hit people not to reconstruct new buildings in risky areas. Farmers with fields close to flood-prone rivers should have another place to retreat to on higher ground, Macie said.

 

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