by adding six more dams along the river. These extra dams are forecast to generate up to 40,000MW of electricity at any one time - enough to power New York city for approximately four days during the ...

Africa’s second-longest river is by some distance its deepest, with a depth of up to 220 metres. The Congo River runs through the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Such facts do not capture its full significance, however. That the Congo River has long been viewed as far more than its mighty discharge—an average of nearly 1.5 million cubic feet per second ...

While the Nile is the longest and probably the most famous river in Africa, it is certainly not the deepest. This is because the Congo River is the deepest in the world, reaching depths of up to ...