Two months after the commissioning of the new Julius Nyerere hydroelectric plant (2,115 MW), Tanzania closed five hydroelectric plants to reduce surplus electricity from the national grid. Kenya, for its part, is suffering from flooding due to heavy rains. Details in this regional press review.
The Julius Nyerere hydroelectric plant which produces 2115MW of electricity in Tanzania.
For the first time, Tanzania, a country that suffered from chronic electricity shortages, is closing its hydroelectric plants due to excess production, according to peaples Gazette
Tanzanian Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa announced the closure of five hydroelectric plants in this country in order to reduce excess electricity from the national grid.
According to Mr Majaliwa, the 2,115 MW Mwalimu Nyerere main hydroelectric plant has already produced enough electricity on its own to power major cities, including the country’s main commercial hub, Dar-es-Salaam following heavy rains. started earlier this year.
« We closed all these plants because demand is low and electricity production is too high. We have no allocation at the momentsaid an official at Tanesco, the country’s state-run power company
This development comes just two months after the commissioning of the first turbine with a capacity of 235 MW of this new hydroelectric plant in order to increase the electricity production capacity and help reduce months of electricity rationing, concludes peaples Gazette
Kenya: Floods devastate the country
Kenyan residents in various parts of the country are suffering heavy losses as heavy flooding continues to destroy their properties.
«In the North Rift region, more than 400 families have been displaced and several hectares of food crops have been damaged or submerged by floods which have wreaked havoc following recent heavy rains», lit-on sur The East African.
These floods also damaged roads and infrastructure. Transport services were disrupted in several areas.
In recent days, other cities in the country have also been affected by recurring floods.
«The situation in Nairobi has reached extreme levels. Despite its best efforts, the county government is clearly overwhelmed. We need all national emergency services mobilized to save livessaid Edwin Sifuna who oversees Nairobi County.
A UN report says at least 32 people have lost their lives in the floods and more than 40,000 have been forced from their homes because of the rain and flooding.
Oscar Okumu, director of the Kenya North Rift Red Cross Society said most flood-affected families need psychological and social support, shelter, food and non-food items.
DRC: more than 537 million USD swallowed up by the subcontracting sector
According to Le Potentiel, the subcontracting sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is at the heart of a financial scandal involving nine mining companies operating in the province of Katanga.
The Congolese regulatory authority for Subcontracting in the Private Sector (ARSP) has revealed that the country has lost more than 535 million USD following the organized mafia in the subcontracting sector.
To this end, the ARSP dismantled a network of nominal shareholders used by these subcontracting companies carrying out large contracts within mineral extraction companies in this province.
Thus, the Director General of the ARSP organized a hearing session in which a representative of the group took part Eurasian Resources Group (ERG), the lawyers, the directors of ARSP and all the partners listed in the nine subcontracting companies concerned below:
Rocada, Solid Rock, Reliable Standar, Global Technologies, Etalon SA, Surtek, Socon, Transversal and Vision.
«It emerges from this hearing session that the multinational Eurasian Resources Group ERG in acronym belonging to Russians and Kazakhs maliciously arranged to create the nine subcontracting companies mentioned in which the Congolese were placed with fictitious shares in subsequently passing them off as majority partners to escape the Congolese law on subcontracting which stipulates that more than 50% of the shares must be held by Congolese in a subcontracting company», confirms the internal sources of the Potential.
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