>>213880376 (OP)
Something about swamp diseases and dormant, poisonous water. I can't cite the explanation but it apparently wouldn't do much good besides killing a couple of million africans for the first few decades. But maybe that's what you wanted
>>213880376 (OP)
Why? How would it benefit anybody?
This is like the retarded plan from the 19th century about draining the Mediterranean Sea to add more land. Absolutely retarded
>>213880675
I think it was a plan before world wars.
The population of Europe was still increasing and farmland scarcity was fatally concerned at the time, while the local subsaharan population was quite a few.