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Farmers in arid Djibouti to benefit from new UN scheme to trap surface water

February 14, 2008

The United Nations agency tasked with trying to reduce rural poverty is setting up an $11.6 million project to better capture and make use of surface water in Djibouti, the small Horn of Africa nation frequently beset by drought.

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