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⬤ LOW 31 Aug 2026, 04:00 UTC

Tanzania Dam Is a Massive Moment for African Self-Finance

Four years ago, Tanzania was so short of power that its state-run utility said electricity would be rationed, with some areas cut off for nine hours a day. But by last week, when President Samia Suluhu Hassan officially opened a giant new hydropower plant on the country’s largest river, the Rufiji, it had become a power-surplus nation.
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