Electricity generation in sub-Saharan Africa is for the most part acutely unreliable. Despite being endowed with fossil and renewable energy resources vast enough to cover all of its energy needs, the rate of electrification is lower than in any other region in the world. Having visited a few countries in eastern and southern Africa myself, […]
The African gas industry has historically been centered in North Africa, with Algeria alone supplying 25 percent of the European Union’s natural gas imports. In the past two years, however, Africa’s eastern coast has emerged with the most discoveries of gas and oil worldwide. Continuing in our five-part series on the emergence of global gas […]