Some 50 million Africans have been connected to electricity in the space of just two years through what has been described as an “unprecedented” partnership between development agencies including the World Bank, the African Development Bank (AfDB), and the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet.
Energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa is a perennial problem, with the number of people on the continent without electricity remaining stuck at 600 million for some time, due to the rate of connection broadly keeping pace with the rate of population growth.
