The Cahora Bassa dam and hydroelectric power plant located on the Zambezi River in northern Mozambique was the last major construction project in Africa during the era of decolonization from Portugal.

In the 1960s, Portugal, the coloniser of what would become the independent country of Mozambique, and South Africa built the Cahora Bassa Dam along the Zambezi River. South Africa provided the ...

Mozambique's Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Castigo Langa, declared on Monday that it is imperative that the country's largest dam, at Cahora Bassa on the Zambezi, should without ...

Cahora Bassa has also, since 2007, been majority Mozambique-owned, the result of a deal struck with Portugal in 2007 and involving Maputo paying off $800-million in debt, which it has cleared in ...

Maputo - Cahora Bassa management has said it was not informed of an alleged foreign plot to destroy the hydro-electric dam, according to a report by Mozambique national news agency AIM on Thursday ...

The company set up to run it, Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), is owned 82 per cent by Portugal and 18 per cent by Mozambique, a shareholding structure that has remained unaltered for quarter ...

In terms of the agreement, Cahora Bassa will make 250MW available to Eskom from its fifth generator, bringing the total amount Eskom can import from Cahora Bassa to 1 500MW.

Mozambique plans to raise output at the big Cahora Bassa hydroelectric dam to 3,220 MW from 2,075 MW over next five years to meet rising demand in the country and in the southern African region ...

Maputo - Mozambique on Tuesday formally took over from Portugal the control of Cahora Bassa hydroelectric dam, Africa's most important after the Aswan in Egypt. "The control of the dam signifies for ...

Eskom, which has managed to stave off load-shedding for more than five weeks, warned that its daily supply from the Cahora Bassa hydroelectric scheme will be reduced by more than half to 650 MW ...