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A Time-Out on the World Bank’s Biggest Dam Project
Under mounting pressure from local and international NGOs, the World Bank has postponed a decision on the Inga 3 Project...
Congo River: Death by a Thousand Cuts?
A briefing paper by International Rivers finds that the Environmental Impact Assessment of the World Bank’s proposed Inga 3 Dam...
Letter from DRC NGOs to the World Bank on Inga 3
In January 2014, a coalition of Congolese NGOs called on the World Bank’s Board of Directors to reconsider the Inga...
Civil Society Letter Calling on US Not to Support Inga 3 Dam
In December 2013, the USAID administrator announced that the US government was considering financial support for the Inga 3 Dam...
Corruption and Infrastructure Megaprojects in the DR Congo
Report details corruption in DRC, potential for marring Inga dam developments The Inga II Dam. Photo by Rudo Sanyanga The...
Tell Governments to Support Renewable Energy, Not Dams!
On December 16 and 17, World Bank member governments will meet in Moscow. They need to decide whether to fund...
Aid Dollars Should Fund Renewables, Not Dams
As you read this, a power outage is affecting much of Africa and South Asia. After hundreds of billions of...
World’s Biggest Dam Won’t Solve World’s Biggest Energy Gap
Is World Bank Throwing Good Money After Bad? From September 2013 World Rivers Review There is a sad irony in...
The World Bank is Bringing Back Big, Bad Dams
Originally published in The Guardian, Environment Blog Kariba Dam on the Zambezi RiverBy Alamy The big, bad dams of past...
Will Congo’s Poor Benefit from World’s Largest Dam Project?
Africa’s poorest nation, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), plans to build the world’s largest – and most expensive –...