The Inga dam in the DRC, the emergency solution for the electrification and development of Africa according to Ramaphosa, Sassou and Lula
The realization of the Inga III project in DR Congo at the moment is still at the ping-pong stage of the Congolese government, which under the regime of Joseph Kabila had signed an exclusive development agreement for the Inga III project with a Sino- Spanish, including the Chinese company Three Gorges Corporation;
But in 2020, the regime of Félix Tshisekedi withdrew the exclusivity of the Inga III project from the Chinese of the Three Gorges Corporation, to begin negotiations with the Fortescue group of the Australian billionaire, Andrew Forrest, an 80,000 megawatt project.
But now, this same year, on his return from his visit to China, Felix Tshisekedi wants to give back the exclusivity of the Inga III project to the Chinese of Three Gorges.
At the summit for a new global financial pact organized in Paris by French President Emmanuel Macron, four African presidents are advocating for the urgent implementation of the Inga III project and funding from international institutions, such as the IMF and the World Bank.
They are the South African President, Cyrill Ramaphosa, the Congolese Denis Sassou Nguesso and the Brazilian Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva.
The Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah al-Sissi would even be ready to send back the Cairo railway project to Cape Town to cede it urgently to the Inga III project.
South Africa, in energy difficulties at the moment, is betting a lot on the Inga dam and the possibility of diverting water from the DR Congo to its land in order to exploit it for the production of electrical energy.
THE SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT, CYRILL RAMAPHOSA
“Now I want to talk about something very practical, President Sassou-Nguesso Nguesso raised the issue yesterday.
He said he would be happy if following this summit, we do something very practical, in terms of infrastructure.
That said, 600 million people in Africa do not have electricity, yet we have all the resources to generate electricity, especially the mighty Congo River.
And that there have been plans to build a number of power stations which will produce, according to my calculations, up to 70,000 megawatts.
And he said and I want to speak in favor of this proposal.
To prove that these summits are not just talkative summits that stem from the Paris conference and other summits.
Let us now put the money on the table and say collectively that we are going to tackle this mega-project, a mega-project that will ultimately produce electricity for 12, 15 African countries in one go.
And this is a project that I think the multilateral development banks are working together.
The appeal that you have launched, Mr President Macron, can indeed be financed.
And when we get out of it, we had to be able to say that the Inga dam is now going to be developed into a power station in Inga, the one that President Sassou-Nguesso Nguesso mentioned, and the next one as well.
If we can do that, then we will be convinced as Africans that these summits are really meaningful.
“President Sisi of Egypt and I have been talking about a railway from Cape Town to Cairo for years, we are leaving that for the next summit.
But the one on the production of electricity and the construction of power plants on the Inga dam is more important, which is immediate and which in my opinion must be tackled now.
This is what needs to be done and then we will be convinced that you are serious about the promises you make.
BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LULA DA SILA:
“We listened to the President of Congo Brazzaville talk about the Congo River, this river can accommodate three Itaipu which is a Brazilian hydroelectric plant, but he cannot do it because there is no funding.
The DRC, which owns the entirety of the mighty Congo River, represented by its Prime Minister, Sama Lukonde Kyenge in the absence of the Head of State Félix Tshisekedi, has not deployed much energy to make its voice heard and define as the decision-making and essential country of the Inga III project. 
Kiki Kienge
kongopress.com