Tuesday, April 25, 2017 – 1:45am For sub-Saharan Africa, water long has been something of a paradox. On the one hand, it is the source of some of the continent’s worst PR. Water in Africa rarely appears on the global stage except when there isn’t enough of it — as in the case of the devastating droughts sweeping the Horn of Africa — or when there is too much, as was the case when deadly floods swept
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