Now that we have the dam, we have to look after it

Her Excellency, President Samia Suluhu Hassan, officially inaugurated the 2,115-megawatt Julius Nyerere Hydropower Plant on August 22, 2026, in the Rufiji District of the Coast Region.

This was a moment for all Tanzanians to jubilate, given the fact that this is a project, which has been mooted by various governments in the past, but which has always been seen as too daunting a task to undertake.

We now have the dam, “habemus dam”, it is time to rejoice and enjoy the fruits of this gargantuan piece of a power generation project. As a person interested in financing development infrastructure, I turned to finding out what the capital structure for this project was.

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