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Mohembo Bridge award sweetens Okavango allure

Award-winning: Mohembo Bridge is not only the country’s longest but now, its most lauded
Award-winning: Mohembo Bridge is not only the country’s longest but now, its most lauded

While the Okavango Delta shows off the uniquely breath-taking natural endowments Botswana is blessed with, the award-winning Mohembo Bridge demonstrates the heights of citizen creativity and engineering, a winning combination for the country’s tourism appeal.

Kobamelo Kgoboko, who was in Singapore this week to accept an Award of Merit by the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC), given for the design of Mohembo Bridge, said the landmark complements the tourism package that attracts visitors from all over the world to Botswana.

Whereas infrastructural developments in ecologically sensitive areas often imply conflict, FIDIC’s panel of judges recognised how the Mohembo Bridge seamlessly blends into the surroundings, the iconic elephant tusks resonating with the Delta and the fully solar-powered operations reducing the footprint on the environment.

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