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4 days ago · The Congolese government, after a series of U-turns in the Grand Inga mega-dams project, is now looking again at plans proposed by China Three Gorges. Much to the chagrin of Australia's Fortescue Metals Group, which fears that it will lose the project.
1 day ago · DRC Fortescue to decide by year end whether to continue on Grand Inga megadams. After Congolese authorities blocked the project for over a year, the Australian firm has now given itself until the end of 2023 to decide whether or not to give up on the Grand Inga project.
5 days ago · FFI, together with Mboso and Bahati, have been pushing for a vote in parliament to approve the firm's project to build the Grand Inga mega-dams and other hydroelectric sites for the production of green hydrogen. Congolese legislation from 2014 on public-private partnerships (PPPs) does not require such a vote.
4 days ago · The plant has an installed capacity of 150 MW and provides a quarter of Kinshasa’s electricity. Additionally, the Grand Inga project, which includes the Inga III dam, aims to be the world’s largest hydroelectric dam and could significantly boost the country’s power supply.
5 days ago · With African Union support, the DRC will in late April play host to dozens of VIPs to discuss the development of the Congo River scheme that comprises several vast dams. - 3/9/2020
3 days ago · How jazz played out over Congo’s chaotic coup. The murder of Congo’s first post-independence leader Patrice Lumumba took place as famed jazzman Louis Armstrong was touring the country. The two events were not a coincidence, as the acclaimed documentary, ‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’, reveals.
3 days ago · 1960s. Goldsmith began the decade composing for such television shows as Dr. Kildare, Gunsmoke, and Thriller as well as the drama film The Spiral Road (1962). However, he only began receiving widespread name recognition after his intimate score to the western Lonely Are the Brave (1962).
