{"id":17418,"date":"2026-01-11T17:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/17418\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T17:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:27:07","slug":"zambia-zimbabwe-440m-committed-to-revive-batoka-gorge-hydropower-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/17418\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia &#038; Zimbabwe: $440M committed to revive Batoka Gorge Hydropower Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" width=\"760\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-2026-01-10T094922.770-760x470.png\" class=\"attachment-jannah-image-post size-jannah-image-post wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" data-main-img=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On January 8, 2026, Zambia and Zimbabwe confirmed a $220M equity contribution each to revive the Batoka Gorge Project, a 2,400 MW, $4.2B cross-border hydropower plant on the Zambezi River near Victoria Falls. This funding strengthens bankability and attracts private capital. A joint committee was established to mobilize public financing, while technical, feasibility, and environmental studies are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On January 8, 2026, Zambia and Zimbabwe confirmed a $220M equity contribution each to revive the Batoka Gorge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[106],"class_list":{"0":"post-17418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zimbabwe","8":"tag-zimbabwe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}