April 17
Africa: Africa Pushing Limits to Boost Renewable Energy Supply Chain, Security
Investors, regulators, researchers, policymakers, and representatives of renewable energy companies, acknowledged the key challenges of shifting away from fossil fuels to renewable… Read more »
March 21
Egypt: Fueling Future - Dabaa Nuclear Project Offers Light in Egypt's Economic Gloom
Egypt's economy continues to face significant challenges, but amidst these, the Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant project emerges as a beacon of hope. Read more »
March 01
Nigeria: From Gas to Ash - the Struggle of Nigerian Women Amidst Surging Cooking Gas Prices
One sunny mid-morning in Omu-Aran village, a community in Kwara State, North Central Nigeria, Iyabo Sunday sat beside a firewood stand observing her pot of beans with rice (a… Read more »
February 19
Africa: Women Biomass Producers - Energy's Largest and Largely Invisible Workforce
The International Energy Agency (IEA) held its annual ministers meeting last week in Paris, marking the 50th anniversary of the world's leading energy organization. Critical topics… Read more »
February 20
Africa: Phasing Out From Fossil Fuels - an Imperative for Climate Justice
Climate change made 2023 the warmest year on record. As urgency mounts to address this worldwide crisis, phasing out the use of fossil fuels is a necessary step that all nations… Read more »
November 24, 2023
Africa: Africa Will Not Cope With Climate Change Without a Just, Inclusive Energy Transition
A just transition should be viewed as an opportunity to rectify some of the wrongs where women are not prioritised in the energy mix, yet their experience of the impact of climate… Read more »
October 02, 2023
Africa: The Human Cost of a Green Energy Transition Without Safeguards
The world is moving away from fossil fuels towards so-called "green" energies as a solution to the climate crisis, which has increased the demand for strategic minerals such as… Read more »
September 21, 2023
Uganda: The Bitter-Sweet Sides of Uganda's Oil and Gas Development
French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) are moving with pace in the development of oil and gas projects with a potential… Read more »
September 20, 2023
Africa: Dangerous Scramble for Renewable Energy Resources
The growing and changing material requirements for new technologies have triggered natural resource scrambles for strategic minerals, generating dangerous rivalries fought out in… Read more »
August 03, 2023
Africa: Revisiting the Water-Energy Nexus for a Changing Climate #AfricaClimateHope
By Philippe Benoit and Anne-Sophie Corbeau Read more »
May 10, 2023
Zimbabwe: Amid Power Cuts in Zimbabwe, Food Preservation Made Easy By Elderly Women
Amid silent refrigerators spawned by crippling electricity cuts, township grannies are relying on their smarts and traditional preservation: roasting and smoking meat over fires as… Read more »
March 13, 2023
Kenya: Solar Powered Freezer Improving Immunization Coverage in Hard-to-Reach Rural Villages
Up until 2019, nurses in three health facilities located in the semi-arid south-eastern Kenya region of Makueni County struggled to bring critical health services closer to a… Read more »
March 01, 2023
South Africa: Rising Food Prices, Ongoing Energy Crisis Place South Africa At Risk
South Africa's almost record level food price inflation, load shedding, rising energy costs, and further fuel and interest rate hike forecast have eroded workers' disposable… Read more »
February 28, 2023
Zimbabwe: Forests Disappearing in Energy Poor Zimbabwean Cities
In New Ashdon Park, a medium-density area in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, at new homes that have replaced a once thriving forest, makeshift fireplaces have become common sights… Read more »
December 14, 2022
Africa: Europe's Dash for Gas Presents Pitfalls for Africa
One of the knock-on effects of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine is that European countries have embarked on a 'dash for gas' to find alternatives to Russian energy supplies. Read more »
December 01, 2022
Egypt: Egypt Races to Supply Wind, Solar Energy to Europe Via Submarine Cables
As Europe braces for an unusual winter due to a global energy crisis, Greece is embarking on one of Europe's most ambitious energy projects by connecting its electricity grid to… Read more »
November 09, 2022
Africa: Why Continent Must Be Part of Growing Interest in Nuclear Energy
The search for energy diversification has taken a more frantic pace amidst the global energy transition debate. Read more »
November 02, 2022
Africa: Early Coal Retirement - How About a Global Auction?
Report after report highlights that we can only achieve the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions required by the climate goals of the Paris Agreement if much of the existing… Read more »
October 05, 2022
Africa: Energy Transition - Is It Time for Africa to Talk Tough?
Thirty-year-old Difasi Amooti Kisembo is one of the demonstrators near the EU delegation offices in Kampala. He and a handful of others have traveled from Uganda's oil and gas-rich… Read more »
November 15, 2011
Africa: World's Biggest Hydropower Scheme Will Leave Africans in the Dark
South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed an agreement to build a major hydroelectric power project, which is said to bring electricity to more than half of the… Read more »