Amplifying African Narratives
Africa’s plan for a single electricity market is moving into the harder work of regulatory alignment, utility reform, market design and cross-border…
Kenya is moving its Mission 300 energy compact from headline targets towards a delivery framework covering electricity access, clean cooking, renewable capacity,…
Zambia has signed contracts for 156 constituency-based solar plants with a combined planned capacity of 312 MW. The test now is grid…
The 300 MW Aysha Wind Project is testing whether blended finance, a long-term power-purchase agreement and risk mitigation can make private renewable-energy…
A US$400 million African Development Bank loan will link disbursement to independently verified improvements in electricity and water services across four Mpumalanga…
Africa’s renewable-energy challenge is shifting from technology costs to the institutions, electricity markets, grids and regulatory systems needed to deliver power at…
Africa has secured $900 million in new clean-cooking commitments. The next test is whether the financing reaches households, local businesses and resilient…
ARM-Harith’s climate transition fund highlights a deeper development-finance question: whether African institutional savings can be channelled into bankable infrastructure at scale.
African electric mobility firm Spiro has raised $215 million to expand electric motorcycles, battery swapping and local clean transport infrastructure.
Africa’s development finance debate is shifting from donor flows to domestic capital mobilisation, as AfDB meetings highlight the continent’s annual funding gap.