Mozambique: The Goal is Clean Water for All Sep 11, 2008
In August Mozambique received a US$15 million credit facility from the International Development Association to support water and institutional projects, and in April the World Bank signed a US$16 million grant to Mozambique's Water Supply Assets and Investment Fund (FIPAG) to increase pipe-borne access for poor households in five cities: Beira, Maputo, Nampula, Pemba, and Quelimane. "Under this grant, private service providers operating under lease contracts from FIPAG will connect an estimated... (allAfrica.com)
Special Report: China in Africa (Part 2) Mozambique: A Chain Saw for Every Tree Jun 3, 2008
Maganja is a tiny district, a five-hour drive along tortuous, dusty roads -- traveled by villagers on bicycles with huge bags of firewood on their heads -- from Quelimane, one of the country's main port cities. Quelimane was journey's end for Livingstone on his trek from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean in 1856. (FastCompany)
Mozambique: Aids Drugs Battle Against the Time Constraints of Poverty Jun 5, 2007
At Quelimane hospital, in Mozambique's central province of Zambezia, paediatrician Maria Jo;o Soromenho encounters a sobbing young mother and her one year-old daughter. The baby is skeletal, no bigger than a newborn, and shows few signs of life. (allAfrica.com)
Warning to Mozambique travellers Feb 22, 2007
The Foreign Office has also advised against embarking on all but essential travel to low-lying coastal areas between the towns of Quelimane and Inhambane. The advice on the Foreign Office's website states that Britons who remain in the coastal areas between these two towns should seek shelter on higher ground and follow local advice. (BBC News -- UK)
Mozambique: Flood Victims Get Aid, But Cyclone Looms Feb 22, 2007
WFP has so far distributed food to some 33,500 people hit by flooding in areas downstream from Mutarara in the Zambezi River Basin and around Quelimane. International appeal. (allAfrica.com)
Southern Africa: Government's Response to Flooding Lacks Urgency Say NGOs Feb 1, 2007
About 3,000 people who were temporarily housed in five schools in Quelimane, Zambezia's provincial capital, have returned to their homes with a week's food and concentrated chlorine to treat water to make it safe for consumption, Zuculu said ... Chris McIvor, programme director for Save the Children (UK), said the Licaure River burst its banks about 20km from Quelimane last week, forcing another 672 people to flee their homes and take refuge in the nearby town of Nicoadala, where they were... (allAfrica.com)
Mozambique: Over 50 Victims Rescued Jan 27, 2007
Meanwhile the number of accommodation centres opened in the provincial capital, Quelimane, to shelter those driven from their homes by the weekend's torrential rains, has risen from five to seven. However, over the past 48 hours, since the rain has eased, many people who had fled to the centres are now returning to their damaged houses. (allAfrica.com)
ANGOLA-MOZAMBIQUE-ZAMBIA: Flooding causes chaos in the southern African region Jan 25, 2007
After 340mm of rain fell within 24 hours on Saturday and Sunday, water levels reached one metre, leaving about 3,000 people homeless in Quelimane, capital of Mozambique's Zambezia Province, according to the National Disasters Management Institute (INGC) ... Initial assessments indicated that the worst affected area in the province was Quelimane, but poor communications and infrastructure meant the extent of flooding in remote areas could only be determined in the next few days. (AlertNet)
Floods kill at least 44 in Angola, Mozambique Jan 23, 2007
Heavy rains swept through Quelimane, a coastal city in Mozambique's Zambezia province, earlier this week, knocking down trees and submerging streets and homes, Paulo Zucula, director of the Mozambican relief agency INGC, told the paper. "The situation has reached alarming proportions because the downpour reached 345 mm in just one day ... all suburbs in the city are under water," according to Zucula. (ABC News Online, Australia -- Weather)
