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Achieving Universal Access to Energy; Africa Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
2016-05-30 16:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: "It is unacceptable that 138 years after Thomas Edison developed the light bulb, hundreds of millions of people cannot have access to electricity to simply light up the bulb in Africa," says Africa Development Bank (AfDB) Group President, Akinwumi Adesina, mourning the gloomy statistics showing that over 645 million people in Africa lack access to electricity, while over 700 million are without clean energy for cooking. Adesina attributes Africa's poverty and the perennial migration of youths...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical