In Harare yesterday, Mozambique and Zimbabwe signed agreements to share and jointly manage water resources in order to cope with the effects of climate change, which has hit the southern African region, and to provide data on the risk of natural disasters.

The agreements were initialed by the Minister of Public Works, Housing and Water Resources, Carlos Mesquita, and the Zimbabwean Minister of Land, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, Anxious Musuka, and witnessed by the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, and his counterpart Emmerson Mnangagwa.

According to Carlos Mesquita, the act is the continuation of work started last year in the Kingdom of Eswatini and South Africa, under the Southern African Development Community (SADC) protocol on the management and development of water resources, particularly in shared basins. (News)