The provincial government of Cabo Delgado is waiting for an oil tanker to arrive at the port of Pemba today to replenish fuel supplies in order to resolve the shortage that has been affecting that part of the country since last week.

The announcement was made this morning by the governor of Cabo Delgado province, Valige Tauabo, according to Rádio Moçambique.

The source said that the diesel and gasoline arriving today will mean that demand will be solved in the next six days, "because after that we will also have the routine, normal acquisition, through another boat and then we will have stability," he said.

The fuel shortage in Cabo Delgado is the result of a cut in the National Road Number 1 (EN1), due to the passage of tropical cyclone Jude.

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