A major construction project that will connect Maputo to a hydro-electric dam 3,000 km further north has been announced.
The power lines will transport over 3,000 MW from the Cahora Bassa dam, in the northern Tete province, to the capital in the south.
The €1.6 billion project is being funded and overseen by the World Bank, the European Investment Bank, Norway and the French Development Agency. Construction is due to start in 2014 and is expected to last three years.
Cahora Bassa, the fourth largest artificial lake on the continent, supplies power to northern Mozambique and to South Africa, which then transports electricity to southern Mozambique.
The project requires the construction of a second, still unfunded dam, Mphanda Nkuwa, situated downstream from Cahora Bassa on the Zambezi river.
Only 18 per cent of the country's 23 million population has access to electricity.
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