U.N. Making Plans to Develop Zambezi
Experts from six Zambezi River basin countries and from U.N. agencies completed initial preparations Friday for an international treaty on uses of the 2,200-mile-long river.
The Nairobi-based U.N. Environment Program is seeking to promote Zambezi development while preserving the total environment.
“With its falls, rapids, canyons, artificial lakes and wild tributaries, it presents a unique zone of the African mainland,” Gennady Golyubev, assistant executive director of the U.N. program, said.
The Zambezi meanders across southern Africa to the Indian Ocean. In its basin are Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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