Josephine Christopher is a senior business journalist for The Citizen and Mwananchi newspapers
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Dar es Salaam. When heavy rains fell across Dar es Salaam this season, they did more than slow traffic. They exposed structural vulnerabilities beneath some of the city’s recently rehabilitated roads.
In Mbagala, where a major corridor was reconstructed alongside the Bus Rapid Transit alignment, sections of the carriageway have again turned into shallow basins after heavy downpours.
