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UK aid agency investing $35m in controversial DRC port

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British International Investment will invest up to $35 million in a controversial deepwater port project in the Democratic Republic of Congo .

The Banana port project, in a small town of the same name in Kongo Central province, is slated to be the DRC ’s first port capable of handling the largest of goods-carrying container ships.

Conservationists and rangers have voiced concerns about the project's potential environmental impacts, including coastal erosion and impacts on habitats of threatened species.