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As Africa's largest wind farm, the project will increase the national electricity supply while creating jobs and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. LTWP is planned to produce 310 MW of wind power at full capacity. [58] [59] In January 2009, the first wind turbine in West Africa was erected in Batokunku, a village in The Gambia. The 150 kilowatt ...
The energy sector in South Africa is an important component of global energy regimes due to the country's innovation and advances in renewable energy. [3] South Africa's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is ranked as moderate and its per capita emission rate is higher than the global average.
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Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu envisions Africa becoming the leading green manufacturing hub globally, with targeted financial support and access to global markets.
Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region in the world where per-capita access rates are falling. [15] According to recent trends, over 60% of Sub-Saharan Africans will still lack access to electricity by 2020. [12] Moreover, Africa has an average electrification rate of 24%, while the rate in the rest of the developing world lies closer to 40%. [12]
The Great Rift Valley of Africa provides critical evidence for the evolution of early hominins.The earliest tools in the world can be found there as well: An unidentified hominin, possibly Australopithecus afarensis or Kenyanthropus platyops, created stone tools dating to 3.3 million years ago at Lomekwi in the Turkana Basin, eastern Africa.
African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) is an intergovernmental non-profit organization, founded in 1988 by Calestous Juma FRS [2] in Nairobi, Kenya, promoting policy-oriented research on science and technology in development that is sustainable in terms of the economy, society, and the environment. [1]
AGRA, formerly known as the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa is an African-led African-based organization that seeks to catalyse Agriculture Transformation in Africa. AGRA is focused on putting smallholder farmers at the centre of the continent's growing economy by transforming agriculture from a solitary struggle to survive into farming ...