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Record Sales Highlight Off-Grid Solar’s Critical Role in Electrification
The East Africa region and Nigeria experienced the highest sales, with subsidies and results-based financing (RBF) programmes helping expand affordability and accelerate market expansion, pushing sales of products purchased through pay-as-you-go (PAYGo) up by almost 50%.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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We Economists Have Done the Maths: ‘Growth’ Is a Doomed Strategy – There Is a Better Way
For decades, the recipe was simple: grow the economy, and poverty would gradually disappear. But the promise that economic growth would “lift all boats” has not been kept.
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- Uncategorized
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- Global
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Arm-Harith Secures $76 Million First Close for Climate Transition Fund
The fund, which targets a final close of $200 million, is designed to mobilise African institutional capital and accelerate investments in energy transition and climate-resilient infrastructure projects across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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DACF and Wahu Mobility Partner to Roll out 5,000 Electric Motorcycles Across Ghana
The pilot programme operationalises a Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Ghana and Wahu Mobility, a Ghanaian manufacturer of smart electric two-wheelers.
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- Energy, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MTN Leads Bid to Share African Digital Infrastructure Costs
The GSMA, the industry’s main lobby group, has reinforced the message, calling for “urgent, coordinated action” between governments, regulators and companies to treat telecoms as infrastructure and adopt a “shared responsibility.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: India Is Drowning in Its Own Wastewater. These Two Engineers Decided to Turn It Back Into a Resource.
India generates 72,000 million litres of wastewater every day. It treats 28 percent of it. The other 72 percent flows, untreated, into rivers, lakes, and land. Amrit Nayak and Krunal Patel think the problem is not the water — it is the architecture of how treatment gets built.
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- WASH
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- Global
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Melinda French Gates Commits $215 Million to Women’s Health, Bringing Two-Year Total to Over $600 Million
The new funding includes $40 million to Co-Impact for an initiative embedding mental health support into maternal and primary care, particularly in Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Global
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UN Report Warns AI’s Water, Land and Climate Costs Are Rising Faster Than Governance
AI-related water consumption could equal the basic annual domestic needs of 1.3 billion people by the end of the decade.
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- Environment, Technology
- Region
- Global
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