Une conférence mondiale sur l'accès rural aux énergies renouvelables s'est ouverte mercredi à Addis Abeba en Éthiopie, avec pour principal sujet les ressources en énergies renouvelables en Afrique.
Africa's Regional Rusumo Falls Hydropower Project has been awarded a US$ 97.3 million loan from the African Development Bank Group's (AfDB) African Development Fund (ADF) and the Nigeria...
A US$203m loan agreement to electrify 28 localities in Liberia, through the construction of four sub-power stations along the first corridors of the country's growth triangle- the Nimba, Bassa to...
The African Development Bank's (AfDB) work in clean energy financing received some welcome recognition last week from Asian Development Bank President (ADB) Takehiko Nakao.
Deep in the bowels of the giant Inga hydroelectric dam that straddles the mighty Congo river stands a fading map named "The motorways of electric power from Inga". From a dot in western Democratic...
Since 2007, over $59 billion of public financing has supported coal projects through funding from development banks and international financial institutions in key countries. For these countries, the Japanese...
Jocelyne Sambira, d'Africa Renewal écrivait dans un article 12 novembre 2013 que dans cinq ans l'Afrique pourrait connaître des améliorations significatives en matière d'énergie, grâce à la récente initiative...
Nigeria´s economy expanded at the fastest rate this year in the third quarter, but the country´s fiscal situation has deteriorated with the further depletion of the rainy day oil savings account.
Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., which generates 95 percent of South Africa´s electricity, declared an emergency after it lost generati ng units, instructing metal producers to cut use and raising the risk of power cuts in...
700 milliards de francs CFA ! Telle serait la somme que l´Etat gabonais sera amené à payer en cas de résiliation officielle du contrat avec la société CODER Gabon. Pourtant, malgré le refus du Président de la...
The coal industry must radically transform and diversify to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, a senior United Nations official said today at a meeting in Poland, stressing that companies must assess...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) mobilized $1.7 billion of climate mitigation finance in 2012, more than any other development institution on the continent, to fund a $2.2 billion climate-focused investment...
Balgis Osman-Elasha, Climate Change Specialist, African Development Bank Group talks about developing a framework to monitor and evaluate the progress of the African Development Bank Group's climate change action...
Along queue of jerrycans at a kiosk run by Kimwasco during a past water shortage in Kitui. Photo/FileThe African Development Bank has approved a Sh7.83 billion loan for a water project covering Kitui and Makueni...
La production de gaz naturel en Afrique pourrait doubler en 20 ans, ce qui constitue un important accélérateur de croissance pour le continent, a-t-on appris mercredi auprès de l'Union internationa le de l'industrie du gaz...
AFRICA has tremendous potential to utilise renewable energy sources as it seeks to address an electricity shortage that has left more than half of the continent´s billion people without...
Source: The Christian Science Monitor by Tom Murphy
The rural town of Oldonyo-Sambu in Tanzania does not have electric power. But with outside help and a self-run local energy center, that is changing a bit.
