July 20, 2016
Nigeria: Nigeria National Council On Power Adopts the Sustainable Energy for All Action Agenda
The Nigeria National Council of Power (NACOP) has adopted the country's Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Action Agenda during its 2nd edition that took place in Kaduna City from… Read more »
July 15, 2016
Ethiopia: AfDB Boosts Ethiopia's Power Industry With a U.S.$ 104 Million Loan
The African Development Bank has approved a USD 104 million loan to the Government of Ethiopia for a project which will sustainably extend power to industries, small businesses to… Read more »
July 13, 2016
Tanzania: Official Launch of the Tanzania Sustainable Energy for All (Se4all) Action Agenda and Investment Prospectus
Tanzania's Minister of Energy and Minerals, Sospeter Muhongo, with the participants to the official launch of national Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Action Agenda and… Read more »
July 08, 2016
Southern Africa: Lighting Up and Powering Africa - AfDB Boosts Eskom's Electricity Generation Capacity With a Usd 1.34 Billion Jumbo Loan
Within the context of the New Deal on Energy for Africa, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and South Africa's power utility (Eskom) on Wednesday, July 7, 2016 in Johannesburg,… Read more »
July 07, 2016
Congo-Kinshasa: AfDB Helps DRC and Nile Equatorial Lakes Countries Increase Access to Electricity
The African Development Bank has approved a USD 11 million grant to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in support of a project to extend affordable electricity coverage within… Read more »
June 27, 2016
Kenya: AfDB Loan to Provide Power to 1.5 Million Kenyans
The African Development Bank on Monday, June 27, 2016, approved a USD 135-million loan to launch the second phase of an energy project that is expected to benefit a minimum of… Read more »
April 07, 2016
Kenya: Kenya to Tap Into Rift Valley Geothermal Resources and Strengthen Private Sector Investment in Renewable Energy
With African Development Bank (AfDB) support, Kenya has received approval from the Climate Investment Funds' Clean Technology Fund (CIF-CTF) for a US $29.65-million concessional… Read more »
April 01, 2016
Africa: AfDB Scouts for Viable Energy Models for Power-Starved Africa
A major preoccupation of the just-concluded visit to Asia by an African Development Bank team led by its President, Akinwumi Adesina, was the search for an efficient energy system… Read more »
June 02, 2016
Africa: A Postscript to the 2016 Annual Meetings: Building on the Momentum, and Looking Ahead with the High 5s
"We are agents of change and we have an agenda for change, and that agenda is called the High 5s" Read more »
May 28, 2016
Africa: African Governments Urged to Shift Policy in the Energy Sector
African governments have been called upon to consider shifting policy in the energy sector by investing in industrialisation and providing subsidies on electricity for people in… Read more »
May 27, 2016
Africa: African Legal Support Facility Launch Energy Project Financing Resource Handbook
Sixtus Vusi, Chairman of the African Legal Support Facility, launches the handbook Understanding Power Project Financing. Read more »
Zambia: AfDB to Support Zambia in Development of Renewable Energy Projects
Zambian Minister of Energy and Water Development, Dora Siliya, announced that her Ministry will in the next fortnight meet African Development Bank (AfDB) Resident Representative… Read more »
May 26, 2016
Africa: World Leaders, Private Sector Endorse AfDB's "New Deal On Energy"
Influential world leaders and senior business executives have endorsed President Akinwumi Adesina's "New Deal on Energy", a vehicle through which the African Development Bank… Read more »
Africa: African Governments and the Private Sector Have Critical Roles to Play in the Energy Market
African governments and the private sector have important roles to play in the energy sector, especially in terms of investment resources and providing the appropriate regulatory… Read more »
Africa: African Economies on High Grounds as AfDB Readies to Leverage Resources for Accelerated Growth and Transformation
Despite the difficult and challenging global economic situation, African countries achieved considerable economic progress in 2015, registering a 3.6% average GDP growth during the… Read more »
May 18, 2016
Africa: AfDB Champions Energy Access and Job Creation for Youth At the WEF
At the just-concluded World Economic Forum on Africa, the African Development Bank reiterated the need to improve energy access to all in efforts to industrialise the continent.… Read more »
May 11, 2016
Africa: AfDB Pushes Energy and Youth Job Creation Agenda At World Economic Forum in Kigali
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May 09, 2016
Africa: Stakeholders Gather in Zambia to Launch the Sustainable Energy for All (Se4all) Country Action Process
Government officials, representatives of international organizations, private sector and civil society, gathered from May 4-6, 2016 in Chimbombo, Zambia, for the official kick-off… Read more »
May 03, 2016
Africa: Lumières d'Afriques: When Art Illuminates the Challenges of Access to Energy
54 works created by 54 world-renowned contemporary African artists, one for each of the 54 countries that make up the continent, united around the same source of inspiration: The… Read more »
April 20, 2016
Cameroon: AfDB and GEF Boost Renewable Energy Projects Across Africa and Urban Planning in Cameroon
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) announced on April 15, 2016, the approval of USD 18 million in funding for two projects co-financed with the African Development Bank (AfDB). Read more »
April 11, 2016
Tanzania: Prize-Winning Sefa-Financed Jumeme Rural Electrification Project in Tanzania Begins Operations
JUMEME Rural Power Supply Ltd. (JUMEME) has just celebrated the operational launch of its project, which will bring solar hybrid mini-grids to electrify more than 100,000 people… Read more »
March 29, 2016
Africa: Paris Agreement On Climate Change Places Africa At the Fulcrum of Renewable Energy Deployment, Experts Agree
The Paris Agreement on climate change of December 2015 has placed Africa at the fulcrum of renewable energy deployment, but African countries have to take the responsibility for… Read more »
March 21, 2016
Africa: The Next Clean Energy Powerhouse?
Can Africa be the next clean energy powerhouse? That was the question posed by the second plenary panel at the Africa CEO Forum - and panelists reached the conclusion that the… Read more »
Sierra Leone: The Country Poised to Transform Renewable Energy Sector With Strengthened Public and Private Sector Participation
Sierra Leone has received a $300,000 grant from the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) to prepare a far-reaching national Investment Plan (IP) to transform its renewable energy sector. Read more »
March 17, 2016
Rwanda: AfDB Approves Loan for Rwanda's First Regional Hydropower Public-Private Partnership Project
The African Development Bank Group announced on 16 March a US$ 24 million loan to support Rwanda's contribution to the development of the Multinational Ruzizi III Hydropower… Read more »
