Impeding progress – Big time…
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As at 2017, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) still had more than 75% of its population without access to electricity. This is a staggering statistic. It partially explains why the country is not having the economic impact it should be having in the region, let alone on the continent. Access to reliable electricity is fundamental to the continent’s development and drives economic growth. Without it, industrialisation efforts are not sustainable (at best) and not achievable (at worst). In this respect, the DRC is arguably one of the continent’s biggest “under-achievers” if one takes into account the natural resources at its disposal.
But the plight of the DRC is however descriptive of the majority of the countries across the central (equatorial) belt of the continent. As illustrated in the graphic below.
