A long-delayed plan to build a hydropower plant on the Ruzizi River between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo received a boost amid US-backed peace talks between the two countries.

The $760m facility will help 'drive regional integration, strengthen energy security and stability, and pave the way for ...

A long-delayed plan to build a hydropower plant on the Ruzizi River between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo received a boost amid US-backed peace talks between the two countries.

Ruzizi III will join two other plants located on the river that divides Congo’s South Kivu province from Rwanda’s Rusizi District. It could nearly double power capacity for nearby Burundi, increase ...

Later, keep your eyes peeled for a video presented by BBC Verify’s Olga Robinson. She’ll be talking you through the details ...

On June 27th the foreign ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo stood smiling in the Oval Office next to ...

A solar minigrid in a Goma neighborhood where almost everyone lacked access to electricity just five years ago is offering a ...

The incident comes just few days after the DR Congo and Rwanda - accused of backing the M23 rebels - signed a peace agreement ...

Inga I, an initial 351-megawatt plant, was commissioned in 1972 and the 1 424 megawatt Inga II facility a decade later. Conflict, ... The Inga site on the Congo River, ...

The Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), has unveiled the second phase ...

The Inga site on the Congo River, the world’s third-biggest by volume, has the potential to ultimately generate about 40,000 megawatts of electricity. Currently the world’s largest hydropower plant is ...