Mozambique: Airlift established to move personnel from Pemba’s gas project to Maputo

An airlift is set up between Pemba and Maputo to remove almost 1,300 people from the north of Mozambique, who were rescued by ship on Saturday from the district of Palma.

The operation is expected to run throughout Monday, a source informed news agency Lusa, during ongoing operations in the provincial capital of Cabo Delgado.

The flights are mainly transporting workers linked to the gas project from northern Mozambique to the Mozambican capital, 1,700 kilometers south, from where they will have connections to their provinces or to other countries, in the case of foreign employees, the source added.

Two sources of humanitarian organizations contacted in Pemba said that, except for the return of some professionals who were seconded in Palma, as teachers, there has not been a record of massive entry of displaced people to date, which has already happened after other waves of attacks in 2020.

This Sunday, the movement of all people who arrived on the ship, took place under strong security measures, in areas closed to journalists by the Defense and Security Forces (FDS).

Source: Further Africa