Mozambique: North-South Road Viable, Bypassing Xai-Xai

Maputo — Mozambique’s National Roads Administration (ANE) announced on Sunday that road traffic between the north and the south of the country has been re-established, through a route that bypasses the flooded city of Xai-Xai, capital of Gaza province.

Catastrophic flooding in southern Mozambique in early January cut the main north-south highway (EN1) in Maputo province in six separate places. The most serious of these was a stretch about three kilometres long between Incoluane and the 3…