Is Ghana’s Carbon Market Undermining Its Energy Transition?
On the evening of July 8th 2025, officials from Ghana and Switzerland gathered in Accra to mark a milestone. Ghana...
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Looking Underground: Zimbabwe’s Cattle Farmers Deepen Boreholes as Super El Niño Looms
Super El Niño Threatens Zimbabwe’s Cattle Farmers In Mpudzi 1 Resettlement Scheme, a small farming enclave south of Zimbabwe’s eastern...
Producing vs Preserving
In farming communities across Ghana, farmers are selling at a loss. Despite strong harvests and existing market demand, the lack...
Solar Brings Long-Awaited Water to Ethiopian Farmers
This story was originally published by WRI. The rich red soils of Ethiopia’s Berbere woreda (district) should be flush with...
World Bank Backs Togo’s Rural Energy Expansion With $160 Million RAISE Project
In June this year, the World Bank approved USD 160 million for a regional project aimed at expanding access to...
Kenya’s Geothermal Energy and the Displacement of the Maasai
By the end of 2025, Kenya's installed geothermal capacity had reached 980 MW, making it the world's seventh-largest geothermal producer...
‘Synthetic Rwanda’ Reveals the Unexpected Emissions Cost of Electrification
Rwanda’s 2016 National Electrification Strategy (NES) was set to rapidly electrify millions of homes, through grid expansion and off-grid solutions....
How Power Tanks Are Keeping Nigeria’s Small Businesses Running Amid Persistent Grid Failures
Ilorin, Nigeria — When graphic designer Adekola Ibrahim opened his laptop to start the day’s work, a sudden power outage...
Ghana Already Knows How to Float Solar on a Dam. Can It Scale?
Bui Power Authority has proven the model on a small reservoir. The question is whether it can survive contact with...
EP Deep Dive | Mission Impossible: US Struggles to Cut China out of Critical Mineral Supply Chains
The Energy Transition and the Mineral Race “The energy transition is reducing dependence on fossil fuels, but it is also...
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