AfDB president calls for political will to kick-start Inga 3 project

Development finance institution African Development Bank (AfDB) group president Dr Akinwumi Adesina has called for a major political commitment to kick-start construction work on the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC’s) giant Inga 3 dam, which has the potential to meet the power needs of more than a dozen countries in Central and Southern Africa. “We have been talking about Inga 3 for many years . . . What we need is political coordination,” Adesina told members of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) board –  which is led by chairperson Ebrahim Rasool –  during a recent meeting at the AfDB’s headquarters in Abidjan.