Maputo : (Mozambique) Mozambique’s Relief Agency, the INGC, has announced the end of the emergency phase of the relief assistance to the twin flooding and cyclone disasters that hit the Zambezi valley, and the southern province of Inhambane respectively in February, APA learnt on Sunday.
INGC director Paulo Zucula, told APA in an interview on Sunday that the emergency activities are over and that reconstruction was now beginning.
He explained that INGC’s National Emergency Operations Centre, CENOE, has been turned into a logistics centre, and the accommodation centres created to house people displaced from their homes by the floods will be turned into resettlement centres to be managed by the provincial governments.
The accommodation centres house 107,000 people.
The floods displaced 285,000 people, killing 45 others while the Cyclone Favio killed 10, affected 140,000 and caused extensive damage to key economic infrastructures.
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