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The World’s Worst War

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LAST month, as I was driving down a backbreaking road between Goma, a provincial capital in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kibumba, a little market town about 20 miles away, I came upon the body of a Congolese soldier. He was on his back, half hidden in the bushes, his legs crumpled beneath him, his fly-covered face looking up at the sun.

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How the DRC’s Inga project could solve much of Africa’s power problems

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Claude Harding
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Companies in Africa are severely handicapped by poor power supply.

The location of the Grand Inga dam (lower centre), along with the other Inga Dams.

One project, the Inga dam hydropower scheme in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has the potential to dramatically change Central Africa’s energy supply situation. The site for the proposed dam is at the Inga Falls on the River Congo in western DRC.

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Destruction of world's biggest rainforests down 25 pct-FAO

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* FAO says deforestation of world's biggest forests slowing

* Agriculture and population pressure still a big threat

BRAZZAVILLE, June 1 (Reuters) - The rate of destruction of the world's three largest forests fell 25 percent this decade compared with the previous one, but remains alarmingly high in some countries, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation said.

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