Inside Africa's Newest Power Giant | JNHPP
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Tanzania just switched on Africa's newest energy giant, the 2,115-megawatt Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project on the Rufiji River. Built at a cost of $2.84 billion (7.45 trillion Tanzanian shillings) and financed entirely by the Tanzanian government, the dam has nearly doubled the country's total power capacity to 4,646 MW, creating a surplus of 2,375 MW that officials now plan to export to Kenya and Zambia. In this video, we break down the numbers, the politics, and the environmental trade-offs behind Tanzania's most ambitious infrastructure project in a generation — told on Africa's own terms. Subscribe to Red News Africa for more Pan-African history, geopolitics, and current affairs — told from an African perspective. ------------------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 00:00 – INTRO 00:48 – THE NUMBERS 03:03 WHO BUILT IT, AND WHO PAID FOR IT 04:59 - THE COST BENEATH THE COST ------------------------------------------------------- #Tanzania #JuliusNyerereDa
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