UN OCHA head warns of need to prepare for Kariba dam collapse

摘要

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs' news service IRIN reports that the head of its Zimbabwe office, Modibo Traore, has called for urgent action on warnings that the 50-year-old Kariba dam on the Zambezi river could fail. A conference in March organised by the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA), the joint Zambia-Zimbabwe organisation that manages the dam, warned that the 128m high structure could collapse. This would threaten at least 3.5 million people, particularly in Mozambique and Malawi, IRIN notes.