Infrastructure and regional integration are the main pillars on which Africa’s quality energy programmes will be based, according to experts attending the All Africa Energy Week conference in Maputo, Mozambique.
In a statement, Elham Ibrahim, African Union Commissioner for Infrastructure and...
Over the course of the 5th African Rift Valley Geothermal Conference (ARGeo C-5), the African Development Bank (AfDB) has clearly reaffirmed its on-going support to the development of geothermal power in the East Africa Rift Valley region.
The ARGeo conference seeks to further regional...
“Does the level of development in the manufacturing sector influence economic growth in Africa?” Marc Luc Dagebégnon Akplogan, an economist and statistician at the Institut national de la statistique et l’analyse économique (INSAE) in Benin, answered this question saying that “The relationship...
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With support from the African Development Bank (AfDB), Mali received US $1.5 million from the Scaling-Up Renewable Energy Programme in Low Income Countries (SREP) of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF). The SREP financing will benefit the Project for Scaling-up Renewable Energy in...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved an USD 12.7 million African Development Fund partial risk guarantee (ADF PRG) for the 105 MW Menengai Independent Power Producers project. The global Menengai project will exploit a portion of Kenya’s geothermal potential to...
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Central African countries commit to move forward on SE4All and address energy access challenge
The Economic Community for Central African States (ECCAS) and the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) convened Central African countries for an expert and ministerial meeting. The purpose of the gathering was to...
The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) approved a US $265,000 grant to the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) partnership for the development of the Atlas of Africa’s Energy Resources. The grant will be funded through the “enabling...
With a team of African Development Bank experts, at the margin of the various Bank events in Morocco, the Vice-President in charge of Governance, Agriculture and Human Development, Aly Abou-Sabaa, on Thursday, October 16, 2014 visited a Bank cherished solar power plant project (NOORo1) in...