Energy Crisis

Grassroots Venezuelan Initiative Aims to Combat Electricity Crisis with Solar Energy

By Humberto Márquez
Sweating profusely, unable to sleep because of the heat, fed up with years of blackouts several times a day, many residents of Venezuela's torrid northwest want to cover the roofs and balconies of their homes with solar panels, and are asking the government to import them massively and cheaply from China.

European Energy Crisis Hits Roma Populations Hard

By Ed Holt
As European households brace for energy shortages this winter and leaders draw up support packages to help people heat homes in the coming months, experts fear that the largest minority on the continent, the Roma, will be left behind.

Sunshine Gets Slowly More Energetic in Zimbabwe

By Michelle Chifamba
On top of a small wooden cabin in Norton, a dormitory town outside the capital of Zimbabwe, is a solar panel that Silvester Ngunzi uses to light up his household.

Pakistan Marks Historic Election

By Zofeen Ebrahim, Irfan Ahmed, and Ashfaq Yusufzai
Flanked by loyalists, friends, journalists and excited family members, former Pakistani premier Mian Nawaz Sharif, head of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N), seemed relaxed on the night of the May 11 general elections.


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