Africa-Press – Mozambique. Mozambique’s Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy (MIREME) is progressing with a project to make bottled cooking gas available to poor households in the northern provinces of Cabo Delgado and Nampula, and the central provinces of Tete and Zambezia.
Under the plan, by 2025 about 1.4 million small cylinders containing five or six kilogrammes of gas will be made available along with other infrastructures such as communal kitchens and three bottle refilling units in Nampula, Tete, and Cabo Delgado.
Speaking to the Maputo daily “Noticias”, the deputy national director of Hydrocarbons and Fuels, Jose Muhai, explained that the project will cost 100 million US dollars funded through MIREME’s Infrastructure Fund.
However, Muhai warned that it will not be easy to change lifelong habits and explained that this is why the project includes the construction of four communal kitchens to familiarise people with the advantages of gas. Currently, many people use charcoal and firewood for cooking which leads to environmental damage and pollution.
He added that the refilling plant in Nampula is in its final stage of construction and the others, in Tete and Pemba, will also be open soon.
Muhai also revealed that the project is attracting the attention of national and international partners and that negotiations are currently underway with some of them. In particular, he mentioned the World Bank, the African Development Bank, and Mozambique’s National Investment Bank (BNI). However, he stressed that work on the project is currently going ahead with funding through the Infrastructure Fund.
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