DRC: $40bn plan to light up Africa

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) plans to woo investors next month to fund the expansion of its Inga hydroelectricity project at a cost of $40bn, its energy minister said. The largest single hydropower initiative in the world - expected to cost nearly twice the price of the giant Three Gorges dam in China - Inga in the western DRC is seen as key to powering up stretches of central and southern Africa.