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A controversial US$143.5 million project to commercialise Tanzania's water and sewage system has ended in acrimony and political embarrassment for the World Bank and the British government which jointly funded it. The project, launched in February 2003, was intended to have shown how government and business can jointly develop Africa's infrastructure....

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