Mozambique delivered yesterday, in Durban, South Africa, several food products to support families that were victims of the floods registered last April in the neighboring country.

This is 20 tons of pasta, 10 tons of rice and the same number of corn flour, as well as two tons of sugar, in an initiative taken by the Council of Ministers.

The donation was delivered by the President of the National Institute for Disaster Risk Management (INGD), Luísa Meque, and was attended by the South African Minister for Corporate Governance and Traditional Affairs, Nkosazana Zuma.

Speaking on the occasion, Luísa Meque referred that this is a gesture of solidarity of Mozambique with the people of South Africa, a country with which there are good relations of friendship and cooperation.

"We, as a country, did not want to be distant from this situation, so we are here to make our contribution. The South African brothers have shown solidarity with Mozambique whenever similar events occur in our country," he recalled.

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For example, during cyclones Kenneth and Idai, which affected the central and northern parts of the country, South Africa provided not only food aid, but also human and material resources to help repair the damage caused by these extreme weather events.

"They allocated various means, with emphasis on helicopters, to rescue the people who were in the water. We want to thank Minister Nkosazana Zuma for her presence today," he said.

For his part, Nkosazana Zuma said that the donation will help the affected families and considered that the gesture is reflex of the relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries.

"Relations between Mozambique and South Africa are long-standing, since the struggle against Apartheid. So we can say, with all certainty and security, that the two countries are brothers and the coexistence is stronger and more lasting," he said.

The floods, the most devastating in recent years in South Africa, have killed nearly four hundred people, five of them Mozambicans, and caused extensive material damage.