DR Congo: World Bank puts back Inga 3 construction start date


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Issue 299 - 01 May 2015 | 4 minute read

Construction work on the 4,800MW Inga 3 project will not start until 2017 at the earliest, World Bank director of operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Ahmadou Moustapha Ndiaye told a 9 April news conference in Kinshasa. While not entirely surprising, this represents a new postponement as in March 2014 the World Bank had said it expected work to start by late 2016. For its part, the DRC government had originally promised the launch for October 2015, a date chosen more for political reasons than technical considerations.

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