{"id":246722,"date":"2026-10-09T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/central-africa-drc-inks-300m-electricity-interconnection-project-with-zambia\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:00:42","slug":"central-africa-drc-inks-300m-electricity-interconnection-project-with-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/central-africa-drc-inks-300m-electricity-interconnection-project-with-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Africa: DRC Inks $300m Electricity Interconnection Project With Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"77\">A framework agreement has been signed to finance, build, and operate a major power transmission line between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This project aims to strengthen the electricity supply to the DRC&#8217;s main mining region. The parties involved are the DRC Strategic Investment Fund (FIS-DRC), Enterprise Power DRC (EnPower), Trafigura, and Gridworks Development Partners. The initiative is part of an effort to rely more heavily on the generation capacity of neighboring&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610090066.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A framework agreement has been signed to finance, build, and operate a major power transmission line between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This project aims to strengthen the electricity supply to the DRC&#8217;s main mining region. The parties involved are the DRC Strategic Investment Fund (FIS-DRC), Enterprise Power DRC (EnPower), Trafigura, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":246723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[54414,258,256,5934,279,4895,9209,19106,257,6504,254,4709,881],"class_list":["post-246722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-300m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-central","tag-drc","tag-electricity","tag-inks","tag-interconnection","tag-news","tag-project","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}