Maputo — Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario on Thursday demanded correct use of the funds granted to Mozambique by the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), as well as scrupulous compliance with the deadlines agreed for implementing MCC projects.

The MCC selected Mozambique for a second package of development support (known as a "compact") in December 2019.

A release from the US Embassy in December said "together with the almost 500 million dollars of development aid provided annually by the United States government, this choice of Mozambique by the MCC strengthens still further our commitment to effect a partnership with the country in promoting more inclusive economic growth and political reforms that strengthen the rule of law and democracy".

According to the MCC's own summary of the first compact, project teams constructed more than 614 rural water points (boreholes with hand pumps), upgraded and expanded two municipal drainage systems, and upgraded and expanded two urban water supply systems.

He said the 2019 choice of Mozambique for a second compact was "recognition of the Mozambican government's undertaking to adopt economic policies and reforms that encourage development".