Supporting water and disaster risk management in Mozambique using Google Earth Engine
Cyclone Eloise just hit Mozambique’s Sofala coastal province at the end of last month, displacing thousands of people and ruining crops
[1]. The authorities are still gauging the full extent of the damage by severe winds and heavy rains across the rest of the region, but this is nothing that Mozambique has had to face for the first time. Throughout its history, the country has coped with a succession of cyclones and floods and has been repeatedly exposed to disastrous events in recent years.
Mozambique’s geographic position, location, and size leave the country vulnerable to extreme and complex hydrological hazards
Economic, Infrastructure, US News
DCN-JOC News Services January 21, 2021
PARSIPPANY, N.J. Acrow, an international bridge engineering and supply company, has provided 26 modular steel bridges to Administração Nacional de Estradas, the National Road Administration of Mozambique, which will be installed in rural areas to restore transportation routes damaged by cyclones in 2019.
The modular steel structures range from 30 to 60 metres in length and each has a single 4.2-metre-wide traffic lane.
The bridges were procured with loans and grants from the African Development Fund as part of the Post Cyclones Idai and Kenneth Emergency Recovery and Resilience Project, indicates a release, adding the reconstruction of damaged infrastructure to restore connectivity to isolated regions is one of the goals of the project.
Protecting Beira against coastal flooding December 10, 2020, by Eldin Ganic
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency has appointed a consortium comprising Royal HaskoningDHV, Deltares, Witteveen+Bos, Metier, and Partners for Resilience to enhance the Mozambican City of Beira’s coastal resilience to extreme climate events.
In 2019, Beira was devastated by Cyclone Idai, which killed more than 750 people, damaged 90% of the City’s infrastructure, including the country’s main port, and left entire areas under water.
This event has triggered a stimulus to activate support and resources to implement interventions to strengthen the City’s readiness to mitigate, respond to, and recover from the future impacts of natural disasters and climate change.