MOZAMBIQUE: Japanese-funded waste collection to be stepped up in Pemba

The municipality of Pemba in Mozambique wants to improve its efficiency in the collection and transportation of solid waste, and is counting on the acquisition of new equipment to achieve this. The Japanese government is supporting this project with $1 million in funding.

Pemba, a port municipality located in the Cabo Dalgado province of Mozambique, is soon to acquire a new fleet of vehicles to boost its efficiency in the collection and transportation of solid waste, and thus reduce pollution in its neighborhoods. This is the result of $1 million in funding recently allocated to Pemba Town Hall by Japan, through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

According to the UN funding program, solid waste management is unsatisfactory in Pemba. The situation is said to have deteriorated following the arrival in the municipality of internally displaced persons, who were forced to flee armed attacks by insurgent groups in Cabo Delgado. The head of the Pnud office, Samuel Akera, points out that this initiative is part of the Pnud's Stabilization and Immediate Recovery project, implemented in the province of Cabo Delgado, the scene of violent attacks between the Islamist group Al-Shabaab and the Mozambican armed forces since 2017.

Improving living conditions

Part of the budget granted by the Japanese government will be used to purchase backhoe loaders, container trucks, graders, tippers, trucks, motorcycles and other equipment to improve the sanitation of Cabo Delgado.other equipment to improve environmental sanitation in the town of Pemba by June 2025.

An access road to the landfill and waste disposal cells will also be built thanks to the Japanese grant. "You can be sure that in five years' time, we will no longer be (...) in situations of poor solid waste management and access roads in our neighbourhoods in Pemba.Satar Abdulgani, Mayor of Pemba Municipality, was very confident.

Source: www.afrik21.africa