AfDB loan to kick-start Massingir rehabilitation

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a supplemental loan of $33m to the government to fund the rehabilitation of the Massingir dam on the Olifants River in Gaza Province. Construction began in the 1970s but was halted during Mozambique’s 16-year civil war. The project was finally completed in 2007 but, after only a year, the dam’s bottom outlets ruptured, flooding 90,000ha of farmland.