Africa-Press – Angola. The Angolan Government foresees, in the General State Budget (OGE) 2024, the rehabilitation of the Cuango/Loremo, Camaxilo/Lubalo (National Road 170) and Nzangi/Tchicolondo border sections, in the province of Lunda Norte.
The announcement was made Tuesday, in Dundo, by the Minister of Public Works, Urbanism and Housing, Carlos Santos, during a technical meeting with members of the government of Lunda Norte, during his one-day working visit to that circumscription.
According to the official, the sections are part of a series of priority road infrastructures, to be intervened from the next OGE.
Of the ten municipalities that make up Lunda Norte, only Lubalo, which is 90 kilometers from the commune of Camaxilo (Caungula) has no paved road.
The rehabilitation of the Nzagi/Tchicolondo section aims, in addition to improving the circulation of people and goods, to increase the volume of business and/or commercial exchange along what is considered the largest customs post in the Eastern Tax Region.
With a route of 97 kilometers (Nzangi/Tchicolondo), the section, with a high level of degradation, sees the movement of more than 25 trucks/day with various products to be exported to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The Caungo/Loremo section to the border with the DRC has a route of 200 kilometers, which benefited, in 2021, from earthworks, within the scope of the Integrated Municipal Intervention Plan (PIIM).
The section connects Cuango’s headquarters to the largest commercial center in the southern region of the province, Cafunfo.
During his stay in Lunda Norte, minister Carlos Santos found out about the level of physical execution of the works to seal and contain the Mussungue ravines (already completed) and the airport roundabout, Camatundo (in progress).
The minister visited the progressive ravines in front of the National Water and Sanitation Company, the Mussungue lagoon (where several deaths from drowning have been recorded), the Dundo river and another that threatens several residences and the Sagrada Esperança Stadium.
Carlos Santos also noted the problem of silting in the Luachimo hydroelectric dam’s intake channels, having ensured urgent intervention to resolve the problem, which conditions the definitive entry into operation of the largest energy project in Eastern Angola.
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