Dangote to test $90m power plant

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Billionaire industrialist Aliko Dangote. FILE PHOTO | AFP

Dangote Cement will this month do test runs for the $90 million gas-fired power plant in Mtwara, southern Tanzania, after months of delays occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The plant is expected to stop the use of imported coal besides ending diesel imports tax disputes with the government.