Zim fuels supplies resume

FEARS of a looming fuel shortage in Zimbabwe have abated following completion of repairs to the pump house at Beira which was damaged during the violent Cyclone Idai storm in Mozambique.

The cyclone ripped through Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe damaging the docking ports for fuel deliveries and the pump house when it made landfall at Beira on March 14.

Zimbabweans, already facing intermittent fuel supplies owing to serious foreign currency shortages, were bracing for a crisis in the fuel sector following reports that ships were failing to offload fuel at Beira.

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