JNHPP lifts TZ’s power status

RUFIJI: TANZANIA has emerged as East Africa’s leading electricity producer, following the commissioning of the 2,115-megawatt Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project (JNHPP), a milestone that has more than doubled the country’s generation capacity. The project, inaugurated on Saturday by President Samia Suluhu Hassan in Rufiji, Coast Region, raises Tanzania’s total installed electricity capacity to 4,646MW against …