[Abathar]

I can't believe that our leaders passed up on throwing some more of our tax dollars toward Africa. I guess we were a little strapped for cash after we put all those billions towards AIDS relief.

I wonder what the real percentage of that money will actually make it into the project and be spent on what it was intended for, my guess would be about 60% and that is conservative IMHO.

[xDGx]

Al Gore could dam the river with his tremendous bulk, creating a giant lake which would irrigate all of Africa!

[SJSAMPLE]

"Subsequent stages are not due to be completed until 2027."

Riiiiight.
A twenty-year plan in Africa?

Who's kidding whom?

[SJSAMPLE]

Once they get the Niger flowing again, it will have plenty of speed to move the thousands of bodies from the latest round of genocide.

How’s Lake Victoria recovering from the Rwanda genocide?

[Rebelbase]

Typical whacked out liberal environmentalist priority. Rescue an African river yet let African people die.

[Publius6961]

The money will allow the Niger Basin Authority (ABN), an intergovernmental body grouping the countries irrigated by Africa's third-longest river, to begin work on the first phase in a 5.5 billion-euro, 20-year rescue plan...

Or not.
What I see as the most probable outcome, is the transfer of wealth from Europe to many new Swiss Bank Accounts.

Cynical?
You bet. My cynicism, in the last 20 year, bats roughly .900, however.

[norwaypinesavage]

Wait a minute, I thought the clean pristine native populations were what saves the planet. How could it be that we need to take wealth from the industrialized populations to save this pristine river.

[TheBattman]

A fall of up to 55 percent in the river's flow over the past 20 years, mainly due to climate change and growing populations, means drastic action is required to prevent it from ultimately running dry.

Bush's fault...