AfrElec - Africa Power Monitor

4 March 2022

UNEA Nations commit to develop a legally binding agreement on plastic pollution

3 March 2022

United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) meeting in Kenya’s Nairobi capital has resolved end plastic pollution and forge an international legally binding agreement by 2024.

Kenya utility KenGen posts $45mn half-year profit on relief measures cut

3 March 2022

KenGen's profit after tax for 2H2021 rose marginally to KES5.12bn ($44.5mn)

Ghana's President launches new phase of Green Ghana Project

2 March 2022

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has launched a new phase of the Green Ghana Project, announcing plans for the planting of 20mn trees in 2022.

AfrElec: Deputy minister says Ghana must take cautious approach to energy transition

2 March 2022

Ghana’s Deputy Energy Minister Andrew Egyapa Mercer said on March 1 that Accra should not adopt decarbonisation policies that are so strict that they limit options for the development of hydrocarbons.

The EU and Africa: on the road to COP27

25 February 2022

The EU failed to achieve a number of concrete climate breakthroughs at the recent EU-AU summit, making it difficult for Europe to deliver on its climate change commitments to Africa by the time of COP27 in Egypt in November.