The roll-out of large-scale solar projects is fraught with challenges over cost, efficiency, and an increasingly ...

Crossing the borders of Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe, land and water safaris follow the flow of the Zambezi to Lake ...

Zimbabwe's industrial power users have secured $250m from the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to develop a floating solar project at Kariba Dam, the world's largest man-made lake.

For decades, the Kariba Dam on the River had provided the bulk of electricity consumed in Zambia and Zimbabwe. However, in September, Zambian officials signalled that, owing to desperately low ...

Negotiations with neighbouring Zambia and Zimbabwe may allow 20 to 25 billion cubic metres of water from the Zambezi River to ...

THE Southern African Development Community (Sadc) says the low water levels at Kariba and Cahora Bassa dams due to low rainfall underscores the urgent need for climate-resilient energy strategies. In ...

Loveness Madangawa prepares lunch over an open fire in Mutare in eastern Zimbabwe - she has an electric stove, but power cuts ...

This epic lake plays a significant part in supplying electricity to two neighbouring countries, and was once the biggest in the world. Built back in the 1950s, Lake Kariba covers around 2,000 ...

Kariba, the world’s largest man-made lake and reservoir by volume, has been a thriving fishing hub since the dam was filled some 60 years ago. The fishing industry has now been pushed to the ...

"In many of the rural areas, there is no grid connection because the infrastructure is not developed, and the cost of that infrastructure is truly enormous." ...