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ADB gives money to help flood victims

    JOHANNESBURG

    The African Development Bank (ADB) has given US $500,000 to help flood victims in Mozambique. The ADB said in a statement that money would be used to help victims in the provinces of Zambezi, Tete, Manica and Sofala in the central region of Mozambique.

    “The Bank’s contribution will be used to provide the necessary drugs and supplies for the prevention and control of malaria, cholera and other water-borne diarrhoeal diseases. The operation will also provide the necessary operational and logistic support for the emergency of diarrhoeal and malaria control programmes in the most affected flooded areas of the four provinces,” the statement said.

    Meanwhile, news reports on Tuesday quoted Mozambique’s agriculture minister as saying that the country’s grain production rose from 400,000 mt in 1990 to one million in 1997. Interviewed by the national news agency (AIM) in Maputo on Monday, he said the objective was to produce more than 2 million mt in 2001.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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