Around 10 million dollars is the amount needed to replace the railway infrastructure, including more than 200 meters of vandalized track, electronic equipment and railway stations, especially those at Tenga and Matola Gare.

The information was shared on Tuesday (31) by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (CFM), Agostinho Langa, during a visit by the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, to the district of Moamba to assess the level of damage caused by the demonstrations.

"In addition to the line we had set up, we now have to replace the Tenga station, which was set on fire and the communication system was also vandalized, as well as the Matola Gare station, which fortunately was only vandalized, but everything around it was burned," he explained, as quoted by AIM.

In addition to these two stations, Catema station on the Seine line was also burned down, as was the bridge over Missito.

The source also said that restoring the railway lines was not a difficult task, and would only require two days of peace and quiet.

"If they give us two days of peace, we'll repair all the damage done, especially to the railway line," he said.

Unlike the railway lines, the replacement of railway stations will not be an easy task because it is constrained.

"With regard to the stations, we will need some time, because there is also electronic equipment that has been burnt out and at some point it will be necessary to import it to replace, for example, the entire weighbridge system in Ressano Garcia," he added.

Langa also explains that the equipment needed for these replacements will have to be imported from neighboring South Africa and that, because of the Christmas and end-of-year vacations, almost all the companies are closed, "so we'll have to wait".

In the meantime, he reassured the population, saying "these vandalizations are not an impediment to the movement of trains, although there is a bit of a lack of security, because we are going to transport wagons with some weight and this can endanger the movement of trains".

He explained that the reasons for the stoppage of trains at some points, and those that are still running, are part of the CFM's social responsibility.

"We practically run the passenger train at a cost equivalent to 15% of what the ticket should cost, so we're doing it almost for free, compared to semi-collective passenger transport, which costs five times more than the train ticket."

For more than two months, Mozambique has been experiencing violent demonstrations in protest at the results of the October 9 elections.