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  1. Rwanda Secures $300 Million Boost To Expand Solar Access, Clean Cooking, And Grid Connections

    Rwanda is preparing for a major expansion in energy access after securing significant international financing to support electricity and clean cooking solutions for its c…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Cooking #Africa #AfricanDevelopmentBank #AIIBloan #rwanda #solarenergy
    diningandcooking.com/2523692/r

  2. New head elected at #AfricanDevelopmentBank: Sidi Ould #Tah to lead bank funding large #infrastructure projects on continent for 54 #African member nations. #G7 nations are members/contributors - will be interesting to see how they navigate #USpol turbulence & move forward building their future.

    Sidi Ould Tah named African De...

  3. The leaders of >½ of #Africa’s nations gathered in Dar es Salaam, #Tanzania to commit to the biggest burst of spending on #electric-power generation in Africa’s history.

    The #WorldBank, #AfricanDevelopmentBank & others are pledging at least $35B to expand #electricity across a continent where more than a half-billion people still don’t have it. About half of the money will go toward #solar “minigrids” that serve individual communities.

    #CleanEnergy #energy #climate
    nytimes.com/2025/01/27/climate

  4. I'm sure that "science can drive #development and unity in #Africa — as it does in the US and Europe." I support the #AfricanUnion and #AfricanDevelopmentBank plan to launch a fund to advance these goals.
    nature.com/articles/d41586-024

    This article about the plan doesn't mention the role that #OpenAccess can play in accelerating progress. Is it part of the plan, tho unmentioned here? Or does the plan assume that #paywalled science works as well as #OA science to advance these goals?

    #SDGs

  5. So, the big question for today is whether the 'worst hellhole in the World' label supplied by Britain is assisting the flow of investment money into Rwanda?

    #africandevelopmentbank