Southern Africa: AfDB Boosts Efforts to Save Kariba Dam

The completion of the Kariba Dam in 1959 was hailed as an extraordinary feat of man's ingenuity in his quest to tailor the forces of nature to suit his needs.

The mines on the Copperbelt and hundreds of communities in the country and in neighbouring Zimbabwe stood to benefit from hydro-electricity that the dam was meant to generate.

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