About four thousand kilometers of roads are impassable in the country, due to the extreme weather events that have totally or partially destroyed about 41,000 houses, 1,200 schools and 2,700 classrooms.

The data was shared by the Prime Minister, Adriano Maleiane, who was speaking this morning in the Mozambican Parliament. Maleiane also informed that a total of 34 health units, 214 power poles and 17 bridges and pontoons were also destroyed due to the storms that have been ravaging Mozambique.

To ensure the reestablishment of traffic flow on the affected roads, Adriano Maleiane said that the government is carrying out emergency works "that allowed the connections between the districts of Memba and Nacala-a-Velha, in the province of Nampula, as well as between Liuopo and Larde.

The connections between the districts of Lugela, Maganja da Costa, Namarroi and Gilé, in Zambezia, were also reestablished, while in Tete, connections between the districts of Doa, Mutarara Magoe and Macanga were counted on.

In Niassa province, circulation has been restored on the Lichinga/Litunde interchange on National Road number 14.

"These and other emergency reconstruction actions are already allowing the reestablishment of the transitability of the affected roads and, therefore, the circulation of people and goods," assured Adriano Maleiane.

In this regard, the PM said it is the Government's challenge to invest in engineering projects for the construction and maintenance of roads, bridges and buildings that are resilient to the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events.