The Congo basin already has 40 hydropower plants. However, the greatest hydropower potential is near the river’s terminus, due to an unusual feature of the river which uniquely has major falls ...

The Inga III hydro plant will harness energy from the Congo River's Inga Rapids, located some 225 kilometers from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Power Construction Corp. of China agreed to build two hydroelectric power plants in the Democratic Republic of Congo to help reduce the mining industry’s yawning energy deficit, its local ...

On the Congo River, Following a Logger’s Dangerous Journey To understand the perilous, often illegal logging industry in the Congo Basin, we needed to get out on the water ourselves.

Chinese and Spanish developers that want to build Inga III, an 11,050-megawatt hydropower plant on the Congo River, agreed this month to form a consortium after they competed for the $14 billion ...

Democratic Republic of Congo's state-owned utility company SNEL said on Tuesday it had signed power purchase agreements for the construction of two 100 megawatt (MW) solar power plants in the ...

New research provides compelling evidence that a group of strange-looking fish living near the mouth of the Congo River are evolving due to the intense hydraulics of the river's rapids and deep ...

KINSHASA, May 21 (Reuters) - At least 17 people drowned in a river in northern Democratic Republic of Congo when the two dug-out boats they were travelling in were caught in a heavy storm, a U.N ...

The Congo Basin of central Africa is well known for its network of rivers that drain a variety of landscapes, from dense tropical forests to more arid and wooded savannas. Among the Congo River's ...