Strengthening Water Security in Africa

At the Sixth World Water Forum being held in Marseille, France, leaders, experts and other stakeholders are discussing strategies aimed at boosting water security in Africa.

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South Africa: A child pushes a wheelbarrow carrying water containers.

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River blindness is a constant risk for those fetching water from streams (file photo).

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    I DON NOT COMPREHEND THIS ARTICLE . WHAT ARE THEY SAYING THAT AFRICA CAN NOT BUILD WHAT EVER IT SEE FIT TO BUILD AND WE HAVE TO DEPEND ON THEM. THIS WHAT I SAY AT ALL TIMES IT IS TIME TO REALY CUT THAT UMBILICAL CORD AND START DEFNDING THE OME BILLION PEOPLE THATY LIVE ON THIS CONTINENT. WE MUST NEGATE THEIR HISTORY AS THEY HAVE DONE NOTHING BUT UNDERMINE UNDERDEVELOPAND UNDEREDUCATE. THEIR DOMINATION OVER AFRICA HAS TO BE ABOLISHED AND UTTERLY DESTROYED. THEIR INUENDOS AND CONDESCENDING ATTITUDES MUST BE DISMISSED AS FOOLISH AND FOLLY. THEY HAVE NOT THE POWER THEY THINK THEY HAVE. THESE EUROPEANS AND AMERICANS HAVE DESIGNED THEIR WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTIONS THEY THEN THINK THEY CAN RULE THE WORLD THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE AS THEYRE NOT THE WORLDS CREATORS. SO IT IS VERY VAIN AND OBNOXIOUS TO THINK THAT YOU HAVE NOT CREATED SOMETHING AND WANT TO COME AND RULE IT. THEY WANBT US TO DISMISS OUR CUSTOMS TO BE THEIR CARBON COPIES THIS IS NOT RIGHT.TRUTH IS SMOETHING THAT IS INBEDDED IN YOU THE PATH TO THE TRUTH WILL MAGNIFY ITSELF WITHIN YOU. THESE PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE THIS POWERE THEY ALLUDE TO. "DEATH BEFORE DISHONOUR" THERE IS A STRONG NEED FOR AFRICA TO MAKE ITS OWN DECISIONS. WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO ASK AFRICANS ; WHERE ARE THE MOST AFRICANS LOCATED? THE ANSWER OULD BE RURAL, WHERE DO WE FIND THE MOST CORRUPTION ?ANSWER IS DEFINITELY NOT RURAL. WHAT DOES THIS SAY TO AFRICA /THAT CORRUPTION IS AN IMPORTED VICE!!!!!RURALY WHERE MOST AFRICANSLIVE THERE IS NO SODOMY AN DTHERE IS NO CORRUPTION BUT WHEN WE GO INTO LARGE CITIES THERE IS WHERE WE FIND ALL THIS CORRUPTION AND GRAFT THESE THINGS ARE WQESTERN IMPORTS . SO I SAY TO YOU AGAIN LOOK FOR ALTERNATIVE SOURCES FOR OUR PROPER REDEVELOPMENT. WE DONT NEED DEVLOPMENT WHAT AFRICA IS HAVING IS A RENASANCE WE ARE RELIVING OUR GLORIOUS HISTORY THRU THE EYES OF MODERNITY. WE MUST NOT ALLUDE OUR SELVES THAT WE ARE BECOMING CIVILSED THIS IS FALACY WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN CIVILISED IF WE WERE NOT WE WQOULD HAVE BEEN EXTINCT LIKE THE DINOSAURS. WE ARE CREATION WE ARE CIVILIZATION DO NOT EVER FORGET THESE THINGS. WE DO NOT NEED PERMISSIOIN TO DO ANY THING. DOES YOUR CHILD TELL YOU WHAT TO DO ? SO THEY ARE THESE WHO COME FROM OUR LOINS THEY ARE EARLYT TO WORLD HISTORY I MENAT THEY ARE LATE TO WORLD HISTORY THEYWHAT WE CALL"HURRY CUM UP"THYE ARE FORCED RIPE THEY THINK THEY KNOW IT AL ITS ALL VAIN AND CONCEIT THAT IS DRIVING THIS MENTALITY. SHOULD WE BE INSTRUCTED IN OUR FORMER TECHINGS OF MATHERMATICS AND SCIENCE THERE WOULD BE NOTHING IMPOSIBLE TO DO.THERE SHOULD BE MORE MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE COMMING OUT OF THE SOUTH. THE CHILDRREN ARE NOT GETTING THE RIGHT TRAINING. AS REVOLUTIONARIES THE SPIRIT OF REVOLUTION SHOULD BE SPREAD THRUOUT AFRICA. THIS HSOULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY TEACHERS SUCH AS ENGINEERS SCIENTIST AND SO ON. IF WE LOOK AT THE CUBANS THEY HAVE BEEN ROUND HE WORLD TEACHING BUILDING THE CHINESE HAVE OVERTAKEN THE CUBANS. WITH SANCTION UP TILL TOADY CUBA STILL HOLDS THE PSODITION AS THE MOST LITERATE COUNTRY ONTHE PLANET. THEYS END THEIR PEOPLE ROUND THE WORLD TO TEACH . AFRICA SHOULD HAVE EMBRACED THEM MORE . WE NEED DAMS WE NEED WHAT WE NEED IF WE WANTED TO BUILD A NUCLEAR BOMB WE HAVE THAT RIGHT WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN AFRICA TO BUILD WHATEVER WE WANT. WHAT THESE PEOPLE DONT KNOW IS THAT THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN NOTHING AT ALL. WE MUST TRUST OUR INSTINCTS WE DONT HAVE TO BOW TO EUROPE WE DONT NEED THEIR PERMISSION THEY HAVE NOT BEENA FREIND TO US NOR HAVENTHYEY PARTNERED US. THEY HAVE DELIBERATELY REFRUSED US THEIR BLESSINGS. A MAN WILL LOOK AT THIS ACCPET IT AND MOVE ON W WILL NT LAMENT OVER THEIR TREACHERY WE WILL MAINTAIN A STRONG DRIVE TO REDEUCATE OYRSELVES WITHT EH HELP OF OUR EXTENDED FAMILIES WHO KNOW BY RIGHT THAT WE ARE NOT WHOM THEY PRETEND WE ARE.