Africa Progress Panel

Building Africa’s Energy Grid Can Be Green, Smart and Affordable

By Friday Phiri
It’s just after two p.m. on a sunny Saturday and 51-year-old Moses Kasoka is seated outside the grass-thatched hut which serves both as his kitchen and bedroom.

Sixty-Five More Years Until Electricity for All in Africa – Report

By a Global Information Network correspondent
Sub-Saharan Africa is still far behind in its ability to generate electricity, hampering growth and frustrating its ambitions to catch up with the rest of the world.

Africa on Threshold of Triple Energy Win for People, Power and Planet

By Kwame Buist
Renewable energy is at the forefront of the changes sweeping Africa, and a “triple win” is within the region’s grasp to increase agricultural productivity, improve resilience to climate change, and contribute to long-term reductions in dangerous carbon emissions.

Tribunal Ruling Could Dent “Monster Boat” Trawling in West African Waters

By Saikou Jammeh
It was five in the afternoon and Buba Badjie, a boat captain, had just brought his catch to the shore. He had spent twelve hours at sea off Bakau, a major fish landing site in The Gambia.


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