The Rural People

Africa, midway through its "Glorious Thirty" 17 Aug 2015   by   Abdoulaye Mar Dieye, Assistant Administrator and Director, Regional Bureau for Africa 2 Africa's economic prospects are bright, but the continent loses about 4 percent of its GDP each year due to the exclusion of women from business and politics. Photo: Aziza Bangwene/UNDP in DRC Sub-Saharan Africa is the only place in the world where living standards stagnated and even declined throughout the 1980s and 1990s. But things are now very different. Africa’s prospects began to change radically in the late 1990s, and its growth rate has remained close to five percent per year ever since. Africa has made concomitant gains in the social sphere. It has made

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Flooding according to +thefreedictionary can be defined as an overflowing of water onto land that is normally dry.  Flooding is extremely dangerous and has the potential to wipe away an entire city, coastline or area, and can cause extensive damage to life and property. It also has great erosive power and can be extremely destructive, even if it is a foot high .http://eschooltoday.com/natural-disasters/floods/what-is-a-flood.html Flooding and wet weather are so costly to agricultural land because they cause delays in and reduction of crop harvest. http://www.ambiental.co.uk/detrimental-impact-of-floods-on-farming-and-rural-areas/  While the rural areas can be badly affected by flooding, the question still remains - whose fault is it about the constant flooding experienced in the rural areas; the topography of the lands in the rural areas which includes their boundaries, physio-graphic features, water features, landmarks etc or the total lifestyle of the rura...