Angola plans to rebuild 1 500 bridges

The Angolan National Roads Institute (NRI) plans to rebuild 1 500 bridges destroyed in the civil war and replace temporary bridges with permanent concrete ones, in the 2013-2017 period, said the Institute’s MD. Molares D’Abril told Angolan news agency Angop that, since the end of the civil war, the Roads Institute (INEA) has built over 800 permanent and metal bridges across the country. D’Abril said that the temporary metal bridges had been installed in emergency situations, and these will be replaced by concrete or concrete and metal bridges.