Browsing: Africa Energy Potential

• African countries have every right to set the timing for their energy transition.
• Africa still needs time–time that the Western world has already had and, frankly continues to milk–to resolve energy poverty and industrialize.
• The continent’s oil and gas production, when managed strategically, provides a pathway for economic growth, energy transition and security.

About a year ago, before COP27 began in Egypt, Fiona Harvey and Matthew Taylor wrote in an opinion piece for The Guardian that it was time for gas exploration in Africa to stop.

“Africa must embrace renewable energy, and forgo exploration of its potentially lucrative gas deposits to stave off climate disaster and bring access to clean energy to the hundreds of millions who lack it, leading experts on the continent have said,” they wrote.

This is hardly new. For several years now, wealthy nations and environmental organizations have been strong-arming African countries to leave their petroleum …

• Tanzania President Samia Suluhu has urged the world to look to Africa for energy amid the climate, energy and geopolitical crises that have been raging for some years now.
• Speaking during the 53rd World Economic Forum Annual Meeting as a session on  “Repowering the World” Suluhu said Africa has everything when it comes to energy. 
• Africa needs a lot of energy as many Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies are being applied there and a lot of related manufacturing is carried out there.

Tanzania President Samia Suluhu has urged the world to look to Africa for energy amid the climate, energy and geopolitical crises that have been raging for some years now. 

Speaking during the 53rd World Economic Forum Annual Meeting as a session on  “Repowering the World” Suluhu said Africa has everything when it comes to energy. 

“It is time the world looked to Africa for energy. We have everything when …