CHINA’S Sinohydro and China Railway Group will finance a $660-million hydroelectric plant in south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, which is being built to reduce the copper-mining region’s power deficit.

Congo is Africa’s largest miner of copper and the 240MW dam in the town of Busanga will power Sicomines, a nearby copper and cobalt mining joint venture between the Chinese companies and Congolese state miner Gecamines.

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