Sep 01 2021
Perspective
The Covid-19 Energy Access Relief Fund (EARF) is an alliance of 16 governments, foundations, and investors, providing emergency capital to off-grid energy providers in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia in order …
Jul 19 2021
Press Releases
Africa CDC, African Union, The Rockefeller Foundation, Clouds Media and the ‘One by One: Target Covid-19 Campaign Join Celebrity Influencers from DRC, Zambia and Uganda to launch: Zambia, Uganda, July 7th, …
Jun 28 2021
Press Releases
Kampala, Monday, June 28th, 2021 -Today, a coalition of global energy sector leaders launched a first-of-its-kind integrated energy pilot in Uganda. Led by Uganda’s largest power utility, Umeme, coordinated by …
Jun 03 2021
Press Releases
A consortium led by Gridworks and including Eranove and AEE Power, has signed three concession agreements today with the Ministry of Hydraulic Resources and Electricity of the Democratic Republic of …
Jun 01 2021
Nearly a billion people living in developing countries still lack access to electricity, which is essential to power modern economies, healthcare and education. More than half of those without power …
Power Africa
Apr 28 2021
Press Releases
Supported projects will produce text and speech datasets for natural language processing (NLP) technologies that will have significant downstream impacts on education, financial inclusion, healthcare, agriculture, communication, and disaster response …
Apr 22 2021
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The climate crisis is the world’s greatest existential threat − but the race to reduce CO2 emissions and achieve global net zero is often perceived as at odds with the …
Apr 22 2021
Press Releases
NEW YORK | April 22, 2021 – The Rockefeller Foundation has today pledged USD$1.5 million to a new global initiative which will support developing countries transitioning towards clean energy. Recently …
Mar 30 2021
Press Releases
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Brazzaville (Republic of Congo), Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), Lusaka (Zambia), New York, NY (USA) - 30th March 2021— In order to combat the spread of misinformation …
Mar 25 2021
By shutting down energy poverty, Africa can power up job growth.