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Watch: The impact of urbanisation in Africa, explained - BBC Africa (youtube.com)
The urban population in Africa is growing faster than anywhere else in the world. Urbanisation can contribute to poverty reduction and increased development, but it can also pose major challenges. The main one is access to clean water and sanitation.

Yemisi Adegoke explains.

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    Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst The rate of growth of urbanisation in Africa is the highest in the world, and it doesn't see to stop, in fact is the opposite, it's accelerating. There is no lack of planning or African experts in urbanisation, but the issues are too huge and the particular issues of many African governments lacking monetary resources make this worse. What can be done? BBC appears, to us, somehow naive. Solar water pumps are effective but not always and not everywhere. Safe and affordable drinking water need huge revamping of water infrastructures, roads, proper housing with water pipes, good sewer system with innovative systems to reduce pollution. Moreover, to show the poorest places in the cities here shown is like talk about Manila showing only the population living on one of the biggest trash dumps in the world. Dar es Salaam itself, shown here, is modernising as fast as it can.