
Cape Town's Worsening Water Shortage
Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.
The authorities have warned that household supplies will be cut off in April - unless residents do more to save water. It's said to be the area's worst drought in recorded history. We hear from Zimbabwe's president Emmerson Mnangagwa during his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Plus, Ghanaian-Dutch skeleton olympic athlete Akwasi Frimpong tells us what it takes to get to the olympics.
(Image: People collecting drinking water from pipes fed by an underground spring, in St. James, about 25km from the city centre, in Cape Town. Credit: Rodger Bosch/ AFP/ Getty Images)
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- Wed 24 Jan 201819:06GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
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