A heavy shower of season was enough to transform the city centre of Yaoundé into an urban swamp this Thursday, paralyzing traffic, swallowing vehicles and relaunching the debate on the chronic impotence of the sanitation infrastructure of the Cameroonian capital. It did not take long. It did not take a few dozen minutes of rain. Not a cyclone. Not an exceptional climate disaster. A shower of season, as it falls tens a year in Yaoundé. And yet, t…
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A heavy shower of season was enough to transform the city centre of Yaoundé into an urban swamp this Thursday, paralyzing traffic, swallowing vehicles and relaunching the debate on the chronic impotence of the sanitation infrastructure of the Cameroonian capital. It did not take long. It did not take a few dozen minutes of rain. Not a cyclone. Not an exceptional climate disaster. A shower of season, as it falls tens a year in Yaoundé. And yet, t…