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An image shared on Facebook showing a raised canal built across a traffic intersection has been shared on Facebook with the claim that the waterway is the Kafubu River in Zambia. However, this is false; the aerial picture actually shows a canal bridge in Belgium.
This Facebook post published on May 24, 2021, includes the image which shows a working canal spanning a large traffic intersection, surrounded by green fields.
“Just Incase you’ve never been to Ndola Copperbelt this is an aerial Photo of Kafubu River ! Photo credit : Evans Kabesha,” reads the post’s caption.
Stakeholders seek options for maximising AfCFTA
With a growing population, huge energy demand and projected industrial and agricultural boom, cross-border infrastructural deficits, funding gaps, smuggling, and lack of harmonized taxes are critical bottlenecks limiting the growth of Africa’s downstream petroleum, stakeholders have said. x
Except the price differential challenge is addressed, energy experts have insisted that the gains of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in the downstream sector of the continent’s petroleum industry may remain a mirage.
The experts, who gathered at the Ghana International Petroleum Conference stressed that challenges bedeviling local capacity and distribution of petroleum products across the continent may mar the gains of AfCFTA.