Zimbabwe Has $9 Billion Plan to Join African Electricity Drive
The plan, which falls under the World Bank and African Development Bank 's Mission 300 program, envisages a more than doubling of the country's power production from hydro, wind, solar and biomass plants, a copy of the presentation sent to Bloomberg showed. Zimbabwe has been hit by regular power outages in recent years, often lasting most of the day, due to a lack of generation capacity.
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