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- Kumbirai Makanza
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A few months back, my Linkedin feed was inundated with posts celebrating the remarkable growth of South Africa’s Solar Photovoltaic (PV) sector signalled by a significant surge in solar panel imports.
- Startup|Energy
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You might think that there is hardly anything less exciting than innovative products and business ideas that come from a university context: Too much theory, too little practical relevance. The 12 participants of the Clean Energy Bootcamp of Startup|Energy from April 10 to 15, 2024 in Nairobi proved the opposite.
- Heifer International / Sun-Connect News
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The dairy sector currently represents 6.5 percent of the country’s agricultural gross domestic product and dairy production is reported by the Dairy Development Authority of Uganda (DDA) to be a major activity in the cattle corridor, a stretch of rangeland covering more than a third of the country.
- Olowo Aminu, Bodunde Akinola, Nneka Chime and Mosorire Aiyeyemi
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In rural fishing communities in Nigeria, lack of access to grid electricity forces fishers to rely on traditional methods of storage for their catch, like sun-drying, salting and smoking.
- Gathu Kirubi PhD, Solar Energy Foundation Kenya
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What comes to mind when you think of visiting a school for kids with a wide range of mental disabilities such as autism, cerebral palsy, downs drome among other conditions? If you consider yourself to be “mentally normal” like myself, then you expect finding kids who are sad and gloomy, shy and timid, hopeless and desperate.
- Darlain Edeme, Martin Kueppers, Stephen J. Lee, Daniel Wetzel
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Around 600 million people in Africa still lack access to electricity. Despite recent progress, electrification efforts face new headwinds since the Covid-19 pandemic, with a growing debt crisis, poor utility financial health, and increased affordability challenges.
- Katrina Lehmann-Grube, Imraan Valodia, Julia Taylor and Sonia Phalatse
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We take a closer look at the Just Energy Transition grants register and some of the key trends, to determine who the money has gone to, when it was disbursed and what it was spent on.
- Rose Ng’ang’a
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Western philanthropies, including foundations, funds, and others, spend billions of dollars annually to help countries adapt to climate change by investing in clean energy. However, compared to the funds dedicated to projects in poor countries in the world, the disparities are so huge that one gets a sense of an apartheid-like culture.
- Cheng Zhang and Miao Hong
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Like many parts of Africa, motorcycles are the most popular form of transportation among Rwanda’s 13.3 million people. Whether they’re commuting to work or school, transporting jugs of water from the local taps or just running everyday errands, people on “motos” can be found zipping up and down most busy streets in the East African nation.
- University of York
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Bakeries in Nigeria which use traditional open ovens fuelled by hardwood cut from local forests are contributing to rapid deforestation and climate change, according to a study from academics working in Nigeria and from the University of York and UCL.
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