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Africa: New UN Study Highlights Huge Potential for Generating Clean Energy in Africa

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Africa News Cloud
May 14, 2013 3:05 pm

[UN News]Less than 1 per cent of all patent applications relating to clean energy technology (CET) have been filed in Africa, according to a...

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Honey Malaolu | Africa Fashion Week 2013 Designer

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Ayesha
May 14, 2013 12:23 am

Honey Malaolu is a bespoke fashion brand inspired by beautiful rich colours and ethnic cultures, keeping the essence of the butterfly at the...

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Flexenclosure deploys eCentre for Vodacom Mozambique

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Staff Writer
May 10, 2013 9:10 am

Flexenclosure, a specialist developer of intelligent power management systems and pre-fabricated data centres for the ICT industry, has depl...

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Sierra Leone: President Koroma’s Keynote Speech On Women’s Empowerment Through Access to Energy

Africa News Cloud
May 7, 2013 3:29 pm

[Sierra Leone Government]On behalf of the people of Sierra Leone, and in my own name, I welcome you all to Sierra Leone. We feel very honore...

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Climate Investment Funds Give North Africa and Middle East Green Light for Revised Regional Solar Plan

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Andrea Ayemoba
May 7, 2013 3:04 pm

The US $7.6 billion Climate Investment Funds (CIF) today gave the go-ahead to Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia to proceed ...

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Philips expands business in Africa with innovations addressing local needs

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Andrea Ayemoba
May 7, 2013 3:03 pm

Royal Philips Electronics announces its fourth consecutive pan-African Cape Town to Cairo road show; visiting 18 cities across 17 countries ...

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EU and AU to increase cooperation on agriculture

Isaac Twumasi-Quantus
May 7, 2013 6:04 am

The joint meeting of the Commissions of the African Union and of the European Union earlier in April confirmed our common desire to place ag...

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Transforming one million lives through digital jobs

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Judith Rodin
May 3, 2013 12:04 pm

From mobile applications helping smallholder farmers access banking to solar innovations providing villages with energy for light and ...

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AfDB Economist to present report on continent’s wind energy market at Clean Power Africa this month

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Andrea Ayemoba
May 3, 2013 12:03 pm

In each market where wind energy is being developed, the state is a big player in the initial stages of industry development; and is often t...

Tanzania aims for regional food basket

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Africa News Cloud
April 29, 2013 9:23 am

DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA - Tanzania wants to turn 350,000 hectares into productive farmland to produce food crops both for domestic consumpti...

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Malawi’s Maize Shortage Hits Women

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Mabvuto Banda
April 26, 2013 9:04 am

Each night Esnart Phiri, a widow with five children, sleeps outside the gates of the state-run maize trader or Admarc market, in Malawi’s ...

The African Development Bank’s Compelling Case for Africa’s Structural Transformation

Andrea Ayemoba
April 24, 2013 12:04 pm

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s 2013 Annual Meetings take place from 27-31 May in Marrakech, Morocco. The 48th meetings of t...

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Eastern Africa resurgence reshapes oil landscape

Andrea Ayemoba
April 24, 2013 12:03 pm

Recent large and world-class gas discoveries in Mozambique and Tanzania, with potential for more to come, and commercial oil flows in Kenya,...

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Tariff hike of only 1% increases mining costs to R100 million per year, says industry expert

Andrea Ayemoba
April 24, 2013 12:03 pm

An electricity tariff rise of only 1% has a devastating impact on the mining industry as it amounts to an increased expenditure of R100 mill...

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Mining for a way forward in South Africa

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Luka Orešković and JP Landman
April 23, 2013 3:04 pm

As global energy dynamics shift, South Africa must chart the future course of its coal and platinum mining industries...

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Tunisia: Workshop in Tunis Focuses On Innovation System in Energy and Water Sectors

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Africa News Cloud
April 23, 2013 9:16 am

[Tunis Afrique Presse]Tunis -As part of Tunisian-German partnership, a workshop on the analysis of the Tunisian innovation system in the ene...

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Keith Peterman: Earth Day: The Face of Climate Change

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Keith Peterman
April 22, 2013 9:14 pm

For now, Qatar, like many Arab countries, reclaims water from the saline seas. This process requires energy, and a lot of it. They can do th...

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Uganda unveils $200b Vision 2040

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Africa News Cloud
April 22, 2013 3:03 pm

Kampala Uganda – Uganda will be a modern country within 30 years, according to a new blueprint dubbed ‘Uganda Vision 2040', crafted by t...

Wind Brings Light to Somaliland

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Ed McKenna
April 22, 2013 9:02 am

A wind turbine, situated some 20 kilometres outside of Somaliland’s capital Hargeisa, has become a significant totem of the country’s ch...

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Ericsson to offer consulting and systems integration services to energy firm E.ON

Ephraim Batambuze III
April 18, 2013 12:04 pm

E.ON Elnät Sverige AB, part of one of the largest private energy companies in the world, has chosen Ericsson to provide a hosted solution i...

Morocco: Renewable Energy Drive Gains Pace in Morocco

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Africa News Cloud
April 16, 2013 3:24 pm

[Moroccan American Center for Policy]Ambitious plans to increase renewables in Morocco's energy mix have taken another step closer to comple...

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World Earth Day: Clean Power Africa to showcase renewable energy solutions for businesses

Andrea Ayemoba
April 16, 2013 3:09 pm

Clean Power Africa to showcase top hydro, solar and wind technology “Today’s World Earth Day reminds us all of our need to commit to pr...

LG 84 INCH UHD TV: Africa’s home entertainment landscape

Isaac Twumasi-Quantus
April 15, 2013 9:02 am

Nigerians by their nature are hard working people; at the end of everyday, they seek for ways to revitalise their minds. To achieve this the...

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IBM Report: Technology Holds the Key to Economic and Social Reform in Accra, Ghana

Andrea Ayemoba
April 12, 2013 9:04 pm

IBM today announced the launch of a report entitled "A Vision for Smarter Growth: an IBM Smarter Cities Report on Accra, Ghana" that highlig...

Georgia Institute of Technology to Open Materials Research lab in Morocco

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Ephraim Batambuze III
April 12, 2013 9:06 am

The Georgia Institute of Technology has signed a letter of intent to develop “a mirror lab” in Rabat, Morocco, that will coordinate ...

eGov Africa 2013 Special: Q&A with ZTE’s Wang Yi Wen

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PC Tech Staff
April 3, 2013 9:09 am

Last week, Uganda hosted the 7th edition of E-Gov Africa 2013 at the Commonwealth Speke Resort Munyonyo, under the theme for this conferenc...

eGov Africa 2013 Special: Q&A with ZTE’s Howard Xue

PC Tech Staff
April 2, 2013 6:08 pm

Last week, Uganda hosted the 7th edition of E-Gov Africa 2013 at the Commonwealth Speke Resort Munyonyo, under the theme for this conferenc...

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Antoinette Sayeh: Time for Change — Shifting Energy Spending in Africa

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Antoinette Sayeh
March 28, 2013 3:04 pm

For many years, countries in sub-Saharan Africa have spent large amounts on subsidizing fuel and electricity. For both sources of energy com...

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Malawi warms to sustainable stoves – in pictures

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Lucy Lamble
March 28, 2013 3:02 pm

Malawi, where an estimated 99% of household energy comes from biomass, is addressing its energy use. Concern Universal ran a four-year proje...

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Nersa slaps down Eskom’s R8bn plea

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Editor
March 28, 2013 12:09 pm

By May this year, Eskom will have paid businesses at least R2,9bn to cut back on power usage in a bid to prevent blackouts. Had the National...

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AfDB Grants Malawi US $3.04 Million for Kholombidzo Power Feasibility Studies

Andrea Ayemoba
March 28, 2013 9:03 am

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group approved, on March 25, 2013, a grant amounting to US $3.04 million to finance the Kholombidzo Hy...

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World Social Forum begins with march through streets of Tunis

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Claire Provost
March 27, 2013 12:07 pm

Tunisian revolutionaries, globalisation activists and civil society groups were in carnival mood ahead of the four-day eventThousands of Tun...

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