Cote Dlvoire, Feb. 5 -- The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has approved a $9.45 million grant for a regional project led by the African Development Bank Group to strengthen climate resilience, ecosystem protection, and cooperative water governance in the Zambezi River Basin, one of Africa's most vital shared freshwater systems.The Zambezi River Basin spans eight Southern African countries-Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe-and supports more than 51 million people through hydropower generation, irrigated agriculture, fisheries, and globally significant ecosystems, including the Barotse Floodplain and the Zambezi Delta. However, accelerating climate variability, deforestation, pollution, unsynchro...