Monday 1 July 2013

President Obama Creates Power Africa Initiative



Power Blackouts Are Simply Unacceptable
AllAfrica.com
If you are going to lose Sh4 million with every power blackout that Kenya Power subjects you to, then the generator option begins to look cheap. A third company had to shut down their plant for nine hours. It takes two ... businesses incur extra ...
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Kenya: Webuye Residents Decry Continued Closure of Pan Paper
AllAfrica.com
The factory was placed under receivership by short term creditors like the Kenya Power and Lighting and Total Kenya and together with long term lenders like KCB, Ecobank and PTA Bank, entered into discussions with the government for a negotiated ...
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Kenya: Country Rethinks Refinery
East African Business Week
Nairobi — The Kenyan government is reconsidering its earlier decision to shut down the oil refinery in Mombasa. India's Essar Energy and the government jointly own the facility in name of Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited (KPRL). Essar acquired its ...
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Obama's Power Africa Initiative Gets $2.5bn Support
spyghana.com
Power Africa is a multi-stakeholder partnership between the United States, the governments of Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria and Ethiopia, and the African private sector, with the shared objective of accelerating investment in Africa's power ...
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President Obama Creates Power Africa Initiative
Neon Tommy
The Obama administration also mentioned that it could cost at least $300 billion to create universal access to power by 2030 in Africa. Ethopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria and Tanzania will initially be the first countries focused in the program ...
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Namibia Should Tap Alternative Energy Sources
AllAfrica.com
Windhoek — Dr Louis van Pletsen has called on Namibia to tap into alternative sources of energy including wind at a time when a power deficit is looming. Speaking at the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) gala dinner at a local hotel on ...
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Obama to Africa: Be wary of foreign powers, even United States
Washington Times
Funds from the electricity initiative, dubbed Power Africa, will be distributed over the next five years to six countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria and Tanzania. Mr. Obama said the U.S. wants to help Africa without interfering like ...
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Unicef lauds progress on MDGs by Sub-Saharan countries
The Standard Digital News
Nairobi, Kenya: รข€" Building on impressive strides made, sub-Saharan Africa must continue to ramp up efforts towards achieving many of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by their 2015 target date, a new UN report says. ... 2013 launched today by ...
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