Inside a New Plan to Bring Electricity to 300 Million in Africa
Some $35 billion is aimed at building small solar sites in rural areas and other improvements. The World Bank chief called ...
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Women, Agriculture and Work in Africa
including to get the stylized facts right. Women’s large overrepresentation in agricultural tasks, combined with the existence of a gender gap in agricultural productivity and the need to boost Africa ...
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Africa’s promise of electricity for 300 million people
Across Africa, some 600 million people live without consistent power. At a big conference this week in Tanzania, heads of state and officials from the World Bank and the African Development Bank ...
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Africa set to launch 41 green hydrogen projects by 2030: Report
As many as 41 green hydrogen projects will commence construction in Africa between now and 2030, according to the Energy Industries Council (EIC), a global energy trade association. However, the ...
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Dam plan busted? World's biggest hydropower project in the balance
a catalyst for the industrialisation of Africa," says the country's Agency for the Development and Promotion of the Grand Inga Project. The BBC contacted the agency for this article but it did not ...
Neue Zürcher Zeitung5mon
1,300 kilometers of railroad vs. China: The West tries to push back Beijing's influence in Africa with a $2.3 billion infrastructure project
The U.S. and Europe want to use the Lobito Corridor to simplify the export of copper and cobalt from the heart of Africa, with the help of a Swiss commodities trader. But the ambitious project may ...